List of museums in New Jersey

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This list of museums in New Jersey is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included.

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Lists of New Jersey institutions which are not museums are noted in the "See also" section, below.

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NameImageLocationCountyRegionArea of studySummary
Absecon Light ABSECON 72 500.jpg Atlantic City Atlantic South Jersey LighthouseLighthouse and local history museum
Acorn Hall Acorn Hall.jpg Morristown Morris Skylands Region Historic houseOperated by the Morris County Historical Society, 1853 Victorian Italianate mansion with changing exhibits on local history
African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey Newtonville AtlanticSouth JerseyAfrican American website, locations in Atlantic City and Newtonville, African American history, culture, art
African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers Tenafly Bergen Gateway Region Art website, African art, operated by the Society of African Missions, changing exhibits of sub-Saharan sculpture and painting, costumes, textiles, decorative arts, religion and folklore
Afro-American Historical and Cultural Society Museum Jersey City Hudson Gateway RegionAfrican AmericanNew Jersey African American history and African artifacts
AIDS Museum Newark Essex Gateway RegionMedicalPlanned museum
Air Victory Museum Mount Laurel Burlington Delaware River Region Aviation website
A. J. Meerwald AJ Meerwald Cape May Harbor.jpg Commercial Township Cumberland South JerseyMuseum shipDelaware Bay oyster dredgeboat built in 1928
Allaire Village ALLAIRE VILLAGE; MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.jpg Wall Monmouth Shore Region Living Encompasses the Howell Iron Works Company, an industrial center in the 1830s, as well as a working blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, general store, bakery, church, enameling building, carriage house, row houses, and other homes
Allen House Shrewsbury MonmouthShore RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1710 tavern house
American Hungarian Museum Passaic Passaic Gateway RegionEthnic website, also known as Hungarian Folklore Museum, decorated eggs, lace, pottery, traditional clothing
American Indian Heritage Museum Westampton Township BurlingtonDelaware River RegionNative American website, American Indian history and culture, operated by the Powhatan Renape Nation
American Labor Museum Pietro-betto-house.jpg Haledon PassaicGateway RegionHistoryVictorian house with period rooms, labor exhibits, labor and immigrant library; historic meeting site for silk mill workers
Army Reserve Mobilization Museum Fort Dix BurlingtonDelaware River RegionMilitary website, also known as Fort Dix Military Museum, history of U.S. Army Reserve, open to the public by appointment
Atlantic City Art CenterAtlantic CityAtlanticSouth JerseyArt website
Atlantic City Historical MuseumAtlantic CityAtlanticSouth JerseyLocal history website, presented by the Atlantic City Free Public Library at the Garden Pier
Atlantic County Historical Society Somers Point AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal history website, household items and decorative arts, fine arts, weaponry, maritime artifacts and toys
Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey Teterboro BergenGateway RegionTransportation - AerospaceNew Jersey's aviation and space heritage
Avalon History Center Avalon Cape May South JerseyLocal history website
Bainbridge House BAINBRIDGE HOUSE, PRINCETON, MERCER COUNTY.jpg Princeton Mercer Delaware River RegionLocal history website, headquarters and museum for the Historical Society of Princeton
Bayonne Community Museum Bayonne HudsonGateway RegionLocal historyunder development as facility is restored
Bayonne Fire Museum BayonneHudsonGateway RegionFirefighting [1]
Barclay Farmstead Museum Cherry Hill Camden Delaware River RegionHistoric house1816 furnished farmhouse on 32 acres (130,000 m2) with trails, living history programs
Barnegat Historic Heritage Village Barnegat Light Ocean Shore RegionOpen air website, operated by the Barnegat Historical Society, includes 4 buildings and 3 smaller structures; Lippincott-Faulkenburg House, the Barber Shop, the Edwards House, the Butcher Shop, a corn crib, a motel cabin and a three-hole necessary
Barnegat Light Historical Society Museum Barnegat LightOceanShore RegionLocal historyLocated in 1903 schoolhouse, includes Edith Duff Gwinn Garden
Barnegat Lighthouse OldBarneyLight.jpg Barnegat LightOceanShore RegionLighthouseLighthouse and museum interpretive center
Barron Arts Center Barron Arts Center-Barron Library.JPG Woodbridge MiddlesexGateway RegionArtArt center website
Batsto Village Batsto River.jpg Washington Township BurlingtonSouth JerseyLivingIncludes Batsto mansion, a sawmill, a 19th-century ore boat, a charcoal kiln, ice and milk houses, a carriage house and stable, a blacksmith and wheelwright shop, a gristmill and a general store
Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial USS New Jersey BB-62 Museum Camden.JPG Camden CamdenDelaware River Region Museum Ship USS New Jersey (BB-62)
Bay Head Historical Society Museum LOVELAND HOMESTEAD MUSEUM, BAY HEAD, OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Bay Head OceanShore RegionHistoric house website, 19th-century period farmhouse
Beavertown History Center Lincoln Park MorrisSkylands RegionLocal historyOperated by the Beaverton Historical Society [2]
Belskie Museum of Art & Science Closter BergenGateway RegionArt website, works of sculptor Abram Belskie and 10 changing exhibitions each year
Benjamin Temple House Temple House - Old Ryan Farm - Ewing NJ.jpg Ewing Township MercerDelaware River RegionHistoric house website, 18th-century house, operated by the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society
Bergen Museum of Art and Science Hackensack BergenGateway RegionMultipleArt and science, currently closed and seeking new location
Berkeley Historical Museum Bayville OceanShore RegionLocal history [3]
Blackwells Mills Canal House Franklin Township Somerset Skylands RegionTransportation19th-century bridge tender's house on the Delaware and Raritan Canal
Blairstown Museum Blairstown Warren Kittatinny Valley Local HistoryArtifact collections are used to interpret the area's history through permanent and changing exhibits and to educate the public about the area's history through programs, resource materials, and events.
Boonton Historical Society and Museum BOONTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, BOONTON, MORRIS COUNTY.jpg Boonton MorrisSkylands RegionLocal historyLocated in the Colonial Revival and Victorian Gothic styles house of Dr. John L. Taylor
Boxwood Hall Boxwood-hall.jpg Elizabeth Union Gateway RegionHistoric houseHome from 1772 to 1795 of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress
Brearley House Lawrenceville MercerDelaware River RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Lawrenceville Historical Society, restored mid-18th-century house
Bedensville Schoolhouse Montgomery SomersetSkylands RegionSchoolOperated by Van Harlingen Historical Society for education programs [4]
Brick Academy Brick Academy, Basking Ridge, NJ, south view.jpg Basking Ridge SomersetSkylands RegionLocal historyOperated by the Historical Society of the Somerset Hills [5]
Bridgeton Hall of Fame All Sports Museum Bridgeton CumberlandSouth JerseyHall of fame - sports information
Brigantine History Museum Brigantine AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal historyOperated by the Brigantine Historical Society [6]
Buccleuch Mansion Buccleuch Mansion New Brunswick NJ.jpg New Brunswick MiddlesexGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Jersey Blue chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Buckelew Mansion Jamesburg MiddlesexGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Jamesburg Historical Association
Burlington County Historical Society BURLINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, BURLINGTON, NJ.jpg Burlington City BurlingtonDelaware River RegionOpen air website, complex including 3 historic houses: Bard-How House, James Fenimore Cooper House, and Captain James Lawrence House; Aline Wolcott Museum Galleries with exhibits of local history
Burlington County Prison Museum Burlington County Prison, 128 High Street, Mount Holly (Burlington County, New Jersey).jpg Mount Holly BurlingtonDelaware River RegionPrisonOperated by Burlington County Parks and the Prison Museum Association
Butler Museum Butler MorrisSkylands RegionLocal historyLocated in an old railroad station
Caesar Hoskins Log Cabin Mauricetown CumberlandSouth JerseyHistoric house18th-century house, open by appointment
Caldwell Parsonage Union UnionGateway RegionLocal historyOperated by the Union Township Historical Society
Califon Historical Society Station Museum Train station, Califon, NJ.jpg Califon Hunterdon Skylands RegionRailroad website, local history and railroad artifacts [7]
Camden County MuseumCamdenCamdenDelaware River RegionLocal history website, operated by the Camden County Historical Society, includes 19th-century domestic, farm and workplace tools, one room schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, antique vehicles
Camden Shipyard and Maritime Museum SOUTH CAMDEN HISTORIC DISTRICT, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR.jpg CamdenCamdenDelaware River RegionMaritime website, local maritime history including boat and ship builders, boating, natural history of the Delaware River and area streams
Camp Olden Civil War Round Table and Museum Hamilton MercerDelaware River RegionHistory website, Civil War and Native American exhibits
Cape May Lighthouse Cape May PointCape MaySouth JerseyMaritimeLocated in Cape May Point State Park
Cape May Maritime Museum Cape May Cape MaySouth JerseyMaritime website, planned museum, Cape May County's maritime heritage
Carter House Summit UnionGateway RegionHistoric house website, home of the Summit Historical Society, mid-18th-century house
Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey Marlton BurlingtonDelaware River RegionArt website
Centennial Cottage CENTENNIAL COTTAGE, OCEAN GROVE, MONMOUTH, NJ.jpg Ocean Grove MonmouthShore RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Historical Society of Ocean Grove, late 19th-century period cottage used for Camp Meeting retreats
Charles S. Shultz House Montclair EssexGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Montclair Historical Society, 1896 home with synthesis of styles popular in the last quarter of the 19th century
Children's Museum of Somerset County Bridgewater Somerset Skylands RegionChildren's website
Church of the Presidents Churchofthepresidents.jpg Long Branch MonmouthShore RegionHistoric churchFormer Episcopal chapel on the Jersey Shore where seven United States presidents worshiped
Clarke House Museum PrincetonMercerDelaware River RegionHistoric houseRevolutionary period home located in Princeton Battlefield State Park
Clifton Arts Center Clifton PassaicGateway RegionArt website, community art gallery and outdoor sculpture park
Collings-Knight House Collingswood CamdenDelaware River RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Friends of Collings-Knight House
Colonial House Museum Cape MayCape MaySouth JerseyHistoric house website, 1775 tavern with colonial era cooking/eating room and bedroom, changing exhibits of local history, operated by the Greater Cape May Historical Society
Cooper Gristmill Nathan Cooper Gristmill, Chester Township, NJ - looking west.jpg Chester Township MorrisSkylands RegionMill website, Operated by the Morris County Park Commission, restored 19th-century gristmill
Cornelius Low House Cornelius Low House (2008).jpg Piscataway MiddlesexGateway RegionLocal historyAlso known as Cornelius Low House / Middlesex County Museum, changing exhibits of state and local history
Country Living Museum Hopewell Township CumberlandSouth JerseyHistory information, farm and shop tools, household equipment, glassware, kitchen utensils, World War II era memorabilia, restored antique clocks, sewing machines, typewriters; part of Dutch Neck Village, a collection of unique shops
Covenhoven House Freehold NJ Hankinson-Moreau-Covenhoven House.jpg Freehold Borough MonmouthShore RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, served as headquarters for British General Sir Henry Clinton before the Battle of Monmouth in 1778
Cranbury Museum Cranbury MiddlesexGateway RegionLocal history website, operated by the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society
Crane House and Museum Israel Crane House, Montclair, NJ.jpg Montclair EssexGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Montclair Historical Society, Federal mansion with 18th- and 19th-century furnishings
Crane-Phillips House Cranford UnionGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Cranford Historical Society, 19th-century house
Cumberland County Prehistorical Museum Greenwich Township CumberlandSouth JerseyArchaeology website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, stone and bone artifacts, pottery, native crafts, fossils
Delaware Bay Museum Bivalve CumberlandSouth JerseyMaritime website, operated by the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, oyster industry and shipping
Dennis Township Museum and History Center Schoolhouse 1874 Dennisville HD NJ.JPG Dennis Township Cape MaySouth JerseyLocal history website, located in the Old School House
DePace Sports Museum and LibraryCollingswoodCamdenDelaware River RegionSports website, Sports history museum and library based on the collections of Dr. Nicholas L. DePace
Denville Historical Society & Museum Denville MorrisSkylands RegionLocal history [2]
Dey Mansion Dey Mansion 1.JPG Wayne PassaicGateway RegionHistoric houseGeneral George Washington's revolutionary war headquarters in the Preakness Valley
Discovery Shell Museum Ocean City Cape MaySouth JerseyNatural historyRetail store with museum display of over 10,000 species of seashells from all over the world [8]
Double Trouble State Park Bayville OceanShore RegionOpen-airIncludes Double Trouble Historic Village, a former company town, a sawmill, and a cranberry sorting and packing house
Dover History Museum 55 West Blackwell Street, Dover, NJ.jpg Dover MorrisSkylands RegionLocal history website, operated by the Dover Area Historical Society
Dr. William Robinson Plantation Museum Clark UnionGateway RegionHistoric houseHouse dating back to 1690, operated by the Clark Historical Society
Drake House Museum Plainfield UnionGateway RegionLocal historyBuilding owned by the City of Plainfield, museum operated by the Historical Society of Plainfield
Drumthwacket Drumthwacket1.jpg PrincetonMercerDelaware River RegionHistoric houseOfficial residence of the governor of New Jersey, built in 1835
East Brunswick Museum 16 Maple Street, Old Bridge, NJ.jpg East Brunswick MiddlesexGateway RegionLocal history website Located in Old Bridge
East Jersey Olde Towne Village East Jersey Olde Towne Village, courtyard view of three buildings.jpg PiscatawayMiddlesexGateway RegionOpen airIncludes church, tavern, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, barracks and several homes
East Point Light Maurice River lighthouse, Heislerville, NJ - East Point Light.jpg Heislerville CumberlandSouth JerseyMaritime
Eatontown Historical Museum EATON TOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM - MONMOUTH COUNTY NJ.jpg Eatontown MonmouthShore RegionLocal history [9]
Edward Compton House Mauricetown CumberlandSouth JerseyHistoric houseLate 19th-century Victorian house, operated by the Mauricetown Historical Society
Ellis Island Ellis Island-27527.jpg Jersey City HudsonGateway RegionHistoryMuseum of immigration; ferry boats depart from Liberty State Park
Ely House Museum Hightstown MercerDelaware River RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society
Emlen Physick Estate EmlenPhysickHouse.jpg Cape MayCape MaySouth JerseyLivingVictorian mansion, operated by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts
Firehouse Gallery Bordentown BurlingtonDelaware River RegionArtFocuses on work of artist Eric Gibbons
The Fleetwood Museum of Art and Photographica 614 Greenbrook Road, North Plainfield, NJ.jpg North Plainfield SomersetSkylands RegionPhotography website, cameras, photographic equipment, art and science of photography
Fort Hancock Historic District SH Light crop.jpg Middletown Township MonmouthShore RegionMultiplePart of Gateway National Recreation Area, includes the former coast artillery fort, Sandy Hook Light, the largest concentration of sea coast artillery batteries, site of first Army proving ground, 1894 USLSS Spermaceti Cove lifesaving station, only complete Nike missile site in the eastern United States and the intact 19th-century Fort Hancock community
Fort Lee Historic Park PIP Hudson Terr entry jeh.JPG Fort Lee BergenGateway RegionMilitaryAmerican Revolution fort site, center has exhibits about the fort
Fort Lee Museum Fort LeeBergenGateway RegionLocal historyOperated by the Fort Lee Historical Society, located in the 1922 Judge Moore House, adjacent to Monument Park
Foster–Armstrong House Foster-Armstrong House, Montague Township, NJ.jpg Montague SussexSkylands RegionHistoric house Facebook site, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History, late 19th-century house
Fosterfields Living Historical Farm FOSTERFIELDS, MORRISTOWN, MORRIS COUNTY.jpg Morris Township MorrisSkylands RegionAgriculture website, operated by the Morris County Park Commission, working farm, using the tools, techniques, and materials of a turn-of-the-century farm
Franklin Mineral Museum Franklin SussexSkylands RegionNatural historyOver 4000 mineral specimens with a large display of fluorescent minerals, mine replica, fossils, Native American artifacts
Friar Mountain Model Railroad Museum Sparta SussexSkylands RegionRailroad website, model train displays, also American Revolutionary War history
Garden State Discovery Museum Cherry Hill CamdenDelaware River RegionChildren's
Garretson Forge and Farm Fair Lawn BergenGateway RegionLivingLiving Dutch farm museum
George F. Boyer Historical Museum Wildwood Cape MaySouth JerseyLocal history website, operated by the Wildwood Historical Society, includes National Marbles Hall of Fame
George Segal GalleryMontclairEssexGateway RegionArt website, part of Montclair State University
Gibbon House Museum Greenwich Township CumberlandSouth JerseyHistoric house website, 1730 furnished house, barn museum with 18th-century tools, doctor's office, Swedish granary log building, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society
Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum GIFFORDTOWN SCHOOLHOUSE MUSEUM, OCEAN COUNTY, NJ.jpg Little Egg Harbor Township OceanShore RegionLocal history website, operated by the Tuckerton Historical Society, Tuckerton Wireless, telephone equipment, Native American artifacts, railroad, maritime, area businesses and industries
Gloucester County Police Museum Woodbury GloucesterDelaware River RegionLaw enforcement [10]
Greenfield Hall Greenfeild Hall NJ.JPG Haddonfield CamdenDelaware River RegionLocal historyOperated by the Historical Society of Haddonfield, houses collections of furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries, early New Jersey glass, needlework samplers and costumes dating back to the 18th century, pottery exhibit, doll and toy collection, tool museum
Griffith Morgan House Pennsauken Township CamdenDelaware River RegionHistoric house1715 stone house, open for special events, 3rd floor museum of local history
Grover Cleveland Birthplace Grover Cleveland birthplace01.jpg Caldwell EssexGateway RegionHistoric houseBirthplace of President Grover Cleveland, artifacts from the 1830s to 1850s
Grounds for Sculpture OnTheGroundsForSculpture(1).JPG Hamilton MercerDelaware River RegionArt35-acre (140,000 m2) sculpture park and indoor art gallery
Dirck Gulick House Dirck Gulick House, NJ.jpg Montgomery Township SomersetSkylands RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Van Harlingen Historical Society
Hackettstown Historical Society Museum HACKETTSTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, WARREN COUNTY.jpg Hackettstown Warren Skylands RegionLocal history website
Hageman Farm Somerset SomersetSkylands RegionHistoric house19th-century farmhouse and barns, open for events, operated by the Meadows Foundation
Hamilton–Van Wagoner House Museum John and Anna Vreeland House.jpg Clifton PassaicGateway RegionHistoric house website, operated by the City of Clifton, 18th-century Dutch farmhouse with rooms decorated in many different period styles, also known as the Hamilton House Museum
Hammonton Arts CenterHammontonAtlanticSouth JerseyArt website
Hancock House Lower Alloways Creek Township Salem Delaware River RegionHistoric houseMid-18th-century house, site of the 1778 Hancock's Bridge massacre
Havens Homestead Museum Brick OceanShore RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Brick Township Historical Society
Hereford Inlet Light HEREFORE INLET LIGHTHOUSE.jpg WildwoodCape MaySouth JerseyLighthouseVictorian style keepers house and lighthouse
Heritage Glass Museum Glassboro Gloucester Delaware River RegionArtArea historic glass making and contemporary glass art
The Hermitage Hermitage-rear.jpg Ho-Ho-Kus BergenGateway RegionHistoric house18th-century Gothic revival home
Hill Memorial Museum Newton SussexSkylands RegionLocal historyOperated by the Sussex County Historical Society
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum Oradell BergenGateway RegionArt website, wildlife art
Historical Society of Bloomfield Museum Bloomfield EssexGateway RegionLocal history website, located in the children's wing of the Bloomfield Public Library
Historic Cold Spring Village Old Grange Cold Spring.JPG Cold Spring Cape MaySouth JerseyOpen air website, Early American (1790–1840) open-air living history museum, open late May through mid-September
Historic Longstreet Farm Holmdel MonmouthShore RegionLiving1890s living historical farm located in Holmdel Park
Historic New Bridge Landing Steuben House 1936.jpg River Edge BergenGateway RegionHistoric housesOperated by the Bergen County Historical Society and HNBLPC, American Revolutionary War battleground site, includes the Steuben House that served as Gen. Washington's headquarters in 1780, Campbell-Christie House, Demarest House Museum, Westervelt-Thomas Barn and 1889 Swing Bridge. Jersey–Dutch architecture. BCHS collections/artifacts, made or used in Bergen County, are on exhibit.
Historic Speedwell Speedwell Ironworks factory building.jpg Morristown MorrisSkylands RegionOpen airFormer ironworks, place where Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse first demonstrated the electric telegraph, includes nine buildings furnished to depict life at Speedwell during the early 19th century
Historic Walnford Upper Freehold MonmouthShore RegionOpen air website, 1754 Waln House, operating 19th-century gristmill and farm buildings on 36 acres (150,000 m2)
Historical Society of Penns Grove, Carneys Point and Oldmans Museum Penns Grove SalemDelaware River RegionLocal history website
Hoboken Historical Museum Hoboken HudsonGateway RegionLocal history
Hoboken Fire Museum Hoboken HudsonGateway RegionFirefighting
Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum Barn and general store - Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum.jpg Delaware Township HunterdonSkylands RegionAgriculture website, includes print shop, woodworking shop, kitchen, John Holcombe House, doctor/dentist office, timber working tools, dairy exhibit, loom, blacksmith shop, tractor barn [7]
Holmes-Hendrickson House Holmdel MonmouthShore RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1754 Dutch farm house
Hope Historical Society Museum Hope WarrenSkylands RegionLocal history [11]
Hopewell Museum Hopewell MercerDelaware River RegionLocal historyIncludes antiques, Native American artifacts
Hopper-Goetschius House Upper Saddle River BergenGateway RegionLivingOperated by the Upper Saddle River Historical Society, early-18th-century house
Howell Living History Farm JOSEPH PHILLIPS FARM; MERCER COUNTY, NJ.jpg Hopewell Township MercerDelaware River RegionAgricultureFacility of the Mercer County Park Commission; 1900 living farm museum
Hunterdon Art Museum 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton, NJ.jpg Clinton HunterdonSkylands RegionArt website, contemporary art, craft and design [7]
Hunterdon County Historical Society Flemington HunterdonSkylands RegionHistoric houseOperates the mid 19th-century Empire period Doric House by appointment and for events
Hunter-Lawrence-Jessup House HUNTER-LAWRENCE-JESSUP HOUSE.JPG Woodbury GloucesterDelaware River RegionLocal historyOperated by the Gloucester County Historical Society
Imagine That Discovery Museum for Children Florham Park MorrisSkylands RegionChildren's website
Indian King Tavern Museum HaddonfieldCamdenDelaware River RegionHistoric tavernBuilt in 1750, site where New Jersey was legally created
InfoAge Wall MonmouthShore RegionMultiple website, located at Camp Evans, includes National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, New Jersey shipwrecks, military electronics, computers, vintage radios
Insectropolis Toms River OceanShore RegionNatural history website, live and mounted insects, interactive exhibits
Ireland Hoffer House Williamstown GloucesterDelaware River RegionHistoric house Facebook site, operated by the Monroe Township Historical Society
Isaac Watson House Hamilton MercerDelaware River RegionHistoric house18th-century house, headquarters of the New Jersey State Society of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Island Heights Cottage Museum COTTAGE MUSEUM, ISLAND HEIGHTS HISTORIC DISTRICT, OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Island Heights OceanShore RegionLocal history website, operated by the Island Heights Cultural & Heritage Association
Jack Allen Memorial Country Living Museum Southampton BurlingtonDelaware River RegionHistory website, country store, bank display, farm and country artifacts
Jacobus Vanderveer House & Museum Jacobus Vanderveer House, Bedminster, NJ, south view.jpg Bedminster SomersetSkylands RegionHistoric house18th-century Dutch frame house associated with the Pluckemin encampment of 1778-79
James Wilson Marshall House James W. Marshall House 2023.jpg LambertvilleHunterdonSkylands RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Lambertville Historical Society, mid-19th-century period house [7]
Jersey City Museum Jersey CityHudsonGateway RegionArtAmerican visual art and material culture, currently closed [12]
Jersey Explorer Children's Museum East Orange EssexGateway RegionChildren's website
Jersey Shore Children's Museum Mays Landing AtlanticSouth JerseyChildren's website, hands-on discovery center that stimulates creativity, imagination and learning through interactive play
Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County Jewish Heritage Museum.jpg Freehold Township MonmouthShore RegionEthnic - Jewish website
Jewish Museum of New Jersey Newark EssexGateway RegionEthnic - JewishOldest synagogue in continuous use in Newark, exhibitions
Jim and Mary Lee Museum Port Warren, NJ - Morris Canal Plane Tender's House.jpg Port Warren WarrenSkylands RegionHistorySite of Morris Canal Inclined Plane 9 West, canal buildings and turbine [13] [14]
Jim Kirk Maritime Room Linwood AtlanticSouth JerseyMaritimeOperated by the Linwood Historical Society at the Linwood Library, ship models, maritime displays [15]
John Abbot II House Hamilton MercerDelaware River RegionHistoric house website, 1730 colonial house, operated by the Historical Society of Hamilton Township
John Ballantine House John-ballantine-house.jpg NewarkEssexGateway RegionHistoric housePart of the Newark Museum, late 19th-century mansion with eight period rooms, two hallways and six thematic galleries of decorative arts
John DuBois Maritime Museum Greenwich Township CumberlandSouth JerseyMaritime website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, builders' models of local craft, tools, blocks, riggings
John F. Peto Studio Museum ISLAND HEIGHTS HIST. DIST. OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Island HeightsOceanShore RegionHistoric houseHouse and studio of trompe-l'œil artist John F. Peto
Kearney House Alpine BergenGateway RegionHistoric house18th-century house, also known as Blackledge-Kearney House or Cornwallis Headquarters; part of the New Jersey portion of the Palisades Interstate Park
Kearny Cottage Perth Amboy MiddlesexGateway RegionHistoric houseLate 18th-century house, operated by Kearny Cottage Historical Society
Kearney Museum Kearney HudsonGateway RegionLocal historyLocated in the Kearney Public Library
Keyport Fire Museum Keyport MonmouthShore RegionFirefightingFire department history and fire prevention [16]
Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum Ewing MercerDelaware River RegionChildren's website, focus is understanding and interacting with racial and ethnic differences, open by appointment
King Store & Homestead Museum 209 Main Street, Ledgewood, NJ - King Homestead.jpg Ledgewood MorrisSkylands RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Roxbury Historic Trust
Kirby's Mill Medford BurlingtonDelaware River RegionMillRestored grist mill dating to 1778
Kuser Farm MansionHamiltonMercerDelaware River RegionHistoric house website, late 19th-century mansion and outbuildings
Lacey Schoolhouse Museum LACEY SCHOOLHOUSE MUSEUM, FORKED RIVER, OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Forked River OceanShore RegionLocal history website, operated by the Lacey Historical Society
Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum, Landing, NJ.jpg Landing MorrisSkylands RegionLocal history website, located on the grounds of Hopatcong State Park
Lakehurst Historical Museum LAKEHURST HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, OCEAN COUNTY, NJ.jpg Lakehurst OceanShore Region Wednesdays & Sundays from 12:30 P.M. to 3:P.MLocal history website, operated by the Borough of Lakehurst Historical Society
Lakewood Heritage Museum Lakewood OceanShore RegionLocal history website
Lambert Castle Lambert Castle, Paterson, NJ - entrance lions.jpg Paterson PassaicGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Passaic County Historical Society, late-19th-century period rooms and changing exhibits about Passaic County history
Latvian Ethnographic Museum Howell MonmouthShore RegionEthnic website, information, folk costumes, hand woven belts and blankets, colorful knitted woolen mittens, jewelry, operated by the NJ Latvian Society
Leedsville Schoolhouse Linwood Borough School No. 1-01.jpg Linwood AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal historyOperated by the Linwood Historical Society, exhibits of local history and culture [15]
"Lest We Forget" - Black Holocaust Museum of Slavery Lawnside CamdenDelaware River RegionHistory website, private collection of slavery artifacts and Jim Crow memorabilia, available by appointment
Liberty Hall Museum Liberty-hall-elizabeth.jpg Elizabeth UnionGateway RegionHistoric houseVictorian style mansion, located at Kean University
Liberty Science Center LibertyScienceCenter.jpg Jersey CityHudsonGateway RegionScienceLocated in Liberty State Park
Little Red Schoolhouse Lyndhurst BergenGateway RegionLocal historyOperated by the Lyndhurst Historical Society
Little Red Schoolhouse Museum Waretown OceanShore RegionSchoolOperated by the Waretown Historical Society [17]
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences Loveladies OceanShore RegionArt website, free public art gallery
Long Beach Island Museum BEACH HAVEN HISTORIC DIST. OCEAN COUNTY, NJ.jpg Beach Haven OceanShore RegionLocal history website, operated by the Long Beach Island Historical Association
Long Pond Ironworks State Park Hewitt PassaicGateway RegionIndustryIncludes Long Pond Ironworks Museum
Longport Museum Longport AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal historyOperated by the Longport Historical Society [18]
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum Macculloch Hall, Morristown, NJ.jpg MorristownMorrisSkylands RegionHistoric house website, showcases 18th- and 19th-century American and English fine and decorative arts
Magnolia Train Station Museum Magnolia CamdenDelaware River RegionLocal history website, operated by the Magnolia Historical Society
MacKenzie Museum Howell MonmouthShore RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Mana Contemporary Jersey CityHudsonGateway RegionArtExhibition space for contemporary art, includes the Richard Meier Model Museum
Margate Historical Society Museum Margate AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal historyNew museum planned in Margate City Hall [19]
Marine Mammal Stranding Center BrigantineAtlanticSouth JerseyNatural historyWildlife rehabilitation center for marine animals, includes natural history museum
Marlpit Hall MARLPIT, MIDDLETOWN, MONMOUTH COUNTY NJ.jpg Middletown MonmouthShore RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Monmouth County Historical Association, 1756 home that is a stop on the New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail
Maywood Station Museum Maywood BergenGateway RegionRailwayHistoric train station and exhibits of railroad artifacts
Mead–Van Duyne House WaynePassaicGateway RegionHistoric houseDutch stone colonial house, on the same property as the Van Riper-Hopper House [20]
Meadowlands Museum Yereance-Berry house 1938.jpg Rutherford BergenGateway RegionLocal historyAntique toys, rocks and minerals, period rooms, changing exhibits
Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum Rahway UnionGateway RegionHistoric tavernEarly tavern life and stagecoach transportation
Metlar–Bodine House Museum Metlar-Bodine House, Red, White, and Boom, Piscataway, NJ.jpg PiscatawayMiddlesexGateway RegionHistoric housePlans to add exhibit on Ross Hall
Millbrook Village Blairstown WarrenSkylands RegionLiving website, located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, recreated turn-of-the-century village
Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society Museum Short Hills EssexGateway RegionLocal history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Miller-Cory House Westfield UnionGateway RegionLiving18th-century farmhouse with costumed docents demonstrating colonial crafts
Millville Army Air Field Museum Millville CumberlandSouth JerseyAviation website, located at the Millville Municipal Airport, Millville's role in aviation history and the history of the P-47 Thunderbolt
Monmouth Battlefield State Park Manalapan MonmouthShore RegionMilitaryAmerican Revolutionary War battlefield site, visitor center exhibits and 18th-century Craig House
Monmouth County Historical Association Museum Monmouth County Historical Association.jpg Freehold MonmouthShore RegionLocal historyIncludes art, furniture, ceramics, textiles, military artifacts
Monmouth Museum Lincroft MonmouthShore RegionMultiple website, art, cultural history and science, children's wing and planetarium, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College
Montclair Art Museum Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, New Jersey).jpg MontclairEssexGateway RegionArtCollections include Hudson River School, portraiture, American Impressionism, the American Scene, Modernism, Abstract Expressionism and 20th-century works by African-American artists
Montville Township Museum MontvilleNJ MontvilleSchool.jpg Montville MorrisSkylands RegionLocal historyoperated by the Montville Township Historical Society [21]
Morris Museum MorristownMorrisSkylands RegionMultiple website, Costumes and textiles, fine art, decorative art, dolls and toys, natural science, geology, paleontology, anthropology
Morris Plains Museum Morris Plains MorrisSkylands RegionLocal history website
Morristown National Historical Park Ford Mansion, Morristown, NJ - looking north.jpg MorristownMorrisSkylands RegionHistoryThree sites important during the American Revolution: the Ford Mansion, a historic house museum, Fort Nonsense and Jockey Hollow
Morven Museum & Garden MorvenNJ.jpg PrincetonMercerDelaware River RegionHistoric houseFormer New Jersey Governor's Mansion and 18th-century home of Richard Stockton, museum showcases the cultural heritage of New Jersey through fine, folk, and decorative arts
Moses D. Heath Farm Middletown MonmouthShore RegionAgriculture website, agriculture and horticulture exhibits
Mount Tabor Historical Society Museum Mount Tabor MorrisSkylands RegionLocal history website, located at the Short Hills train station
Mullica Township Historical Society & Museum Nesco AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal history website, located in the former building of Hilda S Frame School
Museum of Cape May County John Holmes House Cape May Co.JPG Cape May Court House Cape MaySouth JerseyHistoryFurnishings, costumes, tools, decorative and practical objects from the 17th to 20th centuries, including Native American and maritime exhibits in the historic John Holmes House.
Museum of Early Trades and Crafts Madison MorrisSkylands RegionHistoryHistory and lifeways of ordinary people of pre-industrial New Jersey, including hand tools, products and household objects
Museum of Russian Art Jersey CityHudsonGateway RegionArtContemporary Russian art
Museum of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove Ocean Grove MonmouthShore RegionLocal history website, artifacts relative to the history of Ocean Grove, the Holiness Movement, Camp Meetings, Methodism, Monmouth County & 19th-century life
Museum of the American Hungarian FoundationNew BrunswickMiddlesexGateway RegionEthnic - Hungarian website, Hungarian immigrant life including fine art, folk art and folk life
Museum of White Township White Township WarrenSkylands RegionLocal historyOperated by the White Township Historical Society [22]
Nail House Museum Bridgeton CumberlandSouth JerseyLocal history [23]
National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey Sea Girt MonmouthShore RegionMilitaryRole of the New Jersey Militia and National Guard in state history
National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey Lawrenceville MercerShore RegionMilitaryIncludes weapons, uniforms and other equipment, 20 tanks, vehicles and cannon
Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum TBM-3E Avenger.JPG Lower Township Cape MaySouth JerseyAviationLocated at Cape May Airport, aircraft, engines, aviation artifacts, military memorabilia, aircraft engines and more housed in a 92,000-square-foot (8,500 m2) all-wooden hangar
Navesink Twin Lights Navesink.jpg Highlands MonmouthShore RegionLighthouseLighthouse and museum
Navy Lakehurst Information Center Lakehurst OceanShore RegionAviation website, open by appointment only, collections of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, history of the Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst, home to airships and site of Hindenburg Disaster, tours of Lakehurst Hangar No. 1
Nelden-Roberts StonehouseMontagueSussexSkylands RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History
Newark Museum Newark Museum jeh.JPG NewarkEssexGateway RegionMultipleA museum of art and science; American art, decorative arts, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas and the ancient world; Planetarium, Victoria Hall of Science, natural science collections in geology, fossils and botany; Ballantine House, Newark Fire Museum and 1784 Old Stone Schoolhouse
New Jersey Firefighters Museum Boonton MorrisSkylands RegionFirefighting website, part of the New Jersey Firemen's Home, exhibits include steamers, ornate hose carts and fire trucks
New Jersey Historical Society NewarkEssexGateway RegionHistoryMuseum collections include costumes, furniture, paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, tools and more, also houses library and archives
New Jersey Maritime Museum NEW JERSEY MARITIME MUSEUM, BEACH HAVEN OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Beach Haven OceanShore RegionMaritime website
New Jersey Museum of Boating Point Pleasant OceanShore RegionMaritime website
New Jersey Museum of Transportation Wall MonmouthShore RegionRailroadLocated in Allaire State Park, heritage narrow gauge railway and displays
New Jersey Naval Museum USSLing1975.jpg Hackensack BergenGateway RegionMaritimeHome of USS Ling (SS-297), a World War II submarine
New Jersey State House New Jersey State House.jpg Trenton MercerDelaware River RegionState capitol
New Jersey State Museum TrentonMercerDelaware River RegionMultipleArchaeology/ethnology, cultural history, fine art and natural history
New Jersey State Police Museum and Learning Center West Trenton MercerDelaware River RegionLaw enforcement website
New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial Holmdel MonmouthShore RegionMilitaryMuseum, memorial and education center
New Sweden Farmstead Museum Bridgeton CumberlandSouth JerseyOpen airReproduction of a 17th-century farmstead of the type built by early Swedish Finnish colonists
Newton Fire Museum Newton SussexSkylands RegionFirefighting website
Northfield Museum and Casto House Northfield AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal historyLocated in Birch Grove Park [24]
Northlandz NORTHLANZ MUSEUM, HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ.jpg Flemington HunterdonSkylands RegionMultipleMiniature railway with 8 miles (13 km) of track, a 94-room dollhouse, doll museum, music hall, art gallery and Raritan River Railway steam train ride
Noyes Museum of Art Oceanville AtlanticSouth JerseyArt website, part of Stockton University, contemporary and historic art
Nutley Museum Nutley EssexGateway RegionLocal historyOperated by the Nutley Historical Society, includes Annie Oakley memorabilia, general store, toys and local history artifacts
Ocean City Arts Center Ocean City Cape MaySouth JerseyArt website, monthly art exhibits
Ocean City Historical MuseumOcean CityCape MaySouth JerseyLocal history website, located in Ocean City's Community and Cultural Center
Ocean County Museum OCEAN COUNTY (HISTORICAL) MUSEUM, TOMS RIVER, OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Toms RiverOceanShore RegionHistoric house website, operated by the Ocean County Historical Society, Victorian period Pierson Sculthorpe House with period rooms, exhibits on local history
Ocean Gate Museum Ocean Gate OceanShore RegionRailroad website, historic railroad station with railroad and local history displays
Old Ardena Schoolhouse Howell MonmouthShore RegionSchool website, operated by the Howell Historical Society
Old Barracks Museum Old Barracks, South Willow Street, Trenton (Mercer County, New Jersey).jpg TrentonMercerDelaware River RegionHistoryAmerican colonial life and the American Revolution
Old Dutch Parsonage Old Dutch Parsonage, Somerville, NJ - 2017.jpg Somerville SomersetSkylands RegionHistoric houseAdjacent to the Wallace House, 18th-century parsonage
Old Millstone Forge Museum Blacksmith Shop, Millstone, NJ - south view.jpg Millstone SomersetSkylands RegionMill website, restored blacksmith shop with demonstrations
Old Monroe School House Hardyston Township SussexSkylands RegionSchoolOne room schoolhouse used from 1819 to 1926, operated by the Hardyston Heritage Society
Old Schoolhouse and Firehouse Museum Ogdensburg SussexSkylands RegionSchool website, open by appointment by the Ogdensburg Historical Society
Olde Stone House Historic Village GEORGE & SARAH MORGAN, JR HOUSE GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NJ.jpg Washington Township GloucesterDelaware River RegionOpen airOperated by the Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission [25]
Pascack Historical Society Museum Park Ridge BergenGateway RegionLocal history website
Paterson Museum PatersonPassaicGateway RegionLocal historyCultural, industrial, technological, and geological history of Paterson; home of Fenian Ram submarine
Paul Robeson GalleriesNewarkEssexGateway RegionArt website Archived 2011-08-05 at the Wayback Machine , part of Rutgers University
Paulsdale Paulsdale.jpg Mount Laurel BurlingtonDelaware River RegionBiographicalHome of suffragette Alice Paul
Peachfield Westampton TownshipBurlingtonDelaware River RegionHistoric house18th-century house open for events by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Pennsville Township Historical Society Museum Pennsville Township SalemDelaware River RegionLocal history website, also known as the Church Landing Farm Museum
Pequannock Museum Pompton Plains MorrisSkylands RegionLocal historyLocated in a historic railroad station
Perkins Center for the Arts Collingswood CamdenDelaware River RegionArtVisual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program
Perkins Center for the Arts PERKINS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, MOORESTOWN, BURLINGTON CO. NJ.jpg MoorestownBurlingtonDelaware River RegionArtVisual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program
Perth Amboy Ferry Slip PerthAmboyFerrySlip.jpg Perth AmboyMiddlesexGateway RegionMaritime
Peter Mott House Lawnside CamdenDelaware River RegionHistory website, operated by the Lawnside Historical Society; station house along the Underground Railroad
Phillipsburg Railroad Historians MuseumPhillipsburgWarrenSkylands RegionRailroad website
Point Pleasant Historical Society Museum Point Pleasant OceanShore RegionLocal history website
Pomona Hall HABS-NJ,4-CAM,4-1-edit.jpg CamdenCamdenDelaware River RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Camden County Historical Society, 18th-century period decorated mansion
Poricy Park MiddletownMonmouthShore RegionMultipleIncludes 18th-century Murray Farmhouse and barn open for events and a nature center with fossils and natural history displays
Port Mercer Canal House LawrencevilleMercerDelaware River RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Lawrenceville Historical Society, restored 1890-1920 period house for the bridgetender and his family along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, open by appointment
Prallsville Mills Mill and canal, Prallsville, NJ.jpg Prallsville HunterdonSkylands RegionOpen airIncludes an 1877 grist mill, a 1790 linseed oil mill, an 1850 saw mill and a 1900 grain silo
Princeton University Art Museum Art Museum Princeton.JPG PrincetonMercerDelaware River RegionArtMediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, United States, and Latin America
Printmaking Council of New Jersey Somerville SomersetSkylands RegionArtClasses, workshops and gallery with changing exhibits of prints
Proprietary House Prophouse.jpg Perth Amboy MiddlesexGateway RegionHistoric houseCommissioned by the Proprietors of East Jersey to be the official residence of the Royal Governor William Franklin
Prospertown Schoolhouse Museum PROSPERTOWN SCHOOLHOUSE MUSEUM, OCEAN COUNTY, NJ.jpg Jackson OceanShore RegionSchoolOpen by appointment [3] [26]
Ralston General Store RALSTON GENERAL STORE, MORRIS COUNTY, NJ.jpg Ralston MorrisSkylands RegionHistoric store website, operated by the Ralston Historical Association, 1785 general store and post office
Randolph Museum Randolph MorrisSkylands RegionLocal history website, operated by the Historical Society of Old Randolph
Readington Township Museums Cold Brook School, Potterstown, NJ.jpg Readington Township HunterdonSkylands RegionMultiple website, includes Bouman-Stickney Farmstead, Eversole-Hall House, Cold Brook School, and Taylor's Mill. [7]
Red Bank Battlefield Park James and Ann Whitall House, Red Bank Battlefield, National Park, NJ.jpg National Park GloucesterDelaware River RegionHistoric house James and Ann Whitall House, 18th-century plantation house and battlefield site during the American Revolutionary War
Red Brick Schoolhouse Museum Mount Vernon School, Chatham Township, NJ.jpg Chatham Township MorrisSkylandsLocal history website, operated by the Chatham Township Historical Society
Red Mill Museum Village 56 Main Street, Clinton, NJ.jpg Clinton HunterdonSkylands RegionOpen airHistoric grist mill and former quarry village, exhibits of area industry, agriculture and domestic history [7]
Richard Meier Model Museum Jersey CityHudsonGateway RegionArchitectureExhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by Richard Meier, located in Mana Contemporary
Dixon Mills Jersey CityHudsonGateway RegionArchitectureExhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by Richard Meier, located in Mana Contemporary
Ridgewood Schoolhouse Museum Ridgewood BergenGateway RegionLocal history website, operated by the Ridgewood Historical Society
Ringwood Manor Ringwood-front.jpg Ringwood PassaicGateway RegionHistoric houseLocated in Ringwood State Park, 19th- and 20th-century great estate mansion
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum Atlantic CityAtlanticSouth JerseyOdditorium
Risley Homestead Northfield AtlanticSouth JerseyHistoric house website, 1790 cottage, operated by the Atlantic County Historical Society
Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts Millville CumberlandSouth JerseyArt website, community nonprofit arts center with four gallery spaces
Rockingham Rockingham House.JPG Kingston SomersetSkylands RegionLivingAlso known as Judge John Berrien Mansion, preserved and interpreted as the headquarters of George Washington in 1783
Roebling Museum ROEBLING MUSEUM; BURLINGTON COUNTY, NJ.jpg Roebling BurlingtonDelaware River RegionIndustry website, located at former John A. Roebling's Sons Company steel mill
Rosenkrans Museum Walpack Township SussexSkylands RegionLocal history website, operated by the Walpack Historical Society
Roundhouse Museum Roundhouse Museum Egg Harbor NJ.JPG Egg Harbor City AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal history website, operated by the Egg Harbor City Historical Society
Rutgers University Geology Museum Geology Hall, Rutgers University - looking northwest.jpg New BrunswickMiddlesexGateway RegionNatural historyExhibits on geology and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey
Rutherfurd Hall Allamuchy Township WarrenSkylands RegionHistoric house20th-century mansion, also community culture center
Salem County Historical Society Salem Salem Delaware River RegionHistoric houses website, four interconnected historic houses, the centerpiece of which is 1721 Alexander Grant's Mansion House, with exhibits including Salem in the Revolutionary War and Wistarburg Glass
Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage AZEEZ MUSEUM IN WOODBINE CAPE MAY COUNTY.jpg Woodbine Cape MaySouth JerseyLocal historyArea Russian Jewish immigrants, local history and culture
Samuel Fleming House Flemington HunterdonSkylands RegionHistoric house1756 house with history programs, also known as Fleming Castle
Scansen173Princeton JunctionMercerDelaware River RegionArt website, 112 abstract and surreal sculptures, installations, assemblages, pond, bridge, wellness trails,300 elderly trees, and a Zen garden,
Schoolhouse MuseumRidgewoodBergenGateway RegionLocal History https://ridgewoodhistoricalsociety.org/ 1 room schoolhouse built in 1872 that was turned into a museum for the history of the village of Ridgewood and holds many Revolutionary War artifacts.
Schuyler-Colfax Historic House Museum WaynePassaicGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1695 colonial house
Schuyler-Hamilton House MorristownMorrisSkylands RegionHistoric house website, also known as the Jabez Campfield House, operated by the Morristown chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; 1760 four bedroom, Georgian style house
Seabrook Educational and Cultural Center Seabrook CumberlandSouth JerseyLocal history website, history of Seabrook Farms Company and its diverse workers: relocated Japanese Americans and Japanese Peruvians from the U.S. internment camps, wartime refugees from Europe, migrant laborers from Appalachia, the Deep South, and the Caribbean
Sea Girt Lighthouse Sea GirtMonmouthShore RegionMaritimeTours of the lighthouse and keeper's house
Sea Isle City Historical Museum Sea Isle City Cape MaySouth JerseyLocal history website, located in the Sea Isle City branch of the Cape May County Library
Shippen Manor Museum Oxford WarrenSkylands RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Warren County Cultural & Heritage Commission, restored 18th-century stone mansion
Skylands Manor Skylands.jpg RingwoodPassaicGateway RegionHistoric houseLocated in Ringwood State Park, 1920s forty-four-room English Jacobean mansion, open one Sunday a month, 96-acre (390,000 m2) botanical garden
Skylands Museum of Art Lafayette Sussex Skylands Region Art website Skylands Museum of Art is dedicated to the collection and display of works of sculpture and painting that express the human spirit, imagination and history of fantasy. [27]
Silas Riggs House 213 Main Street, Ledgewood, NJ - Silas Riggs House.jpg Ledgewood MorrisSkylands RegionHistoric house website, 18th-century period house, operated by the Roxbury Township Historical Society
Silverball Museum Asbury Park MonmouthShore RegionAmusement website, pinball museum and arcade
Smith-Cadbury Mansion Moorestown BurlingtonDelaware River RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Historical Society of Moorestown
Snowmobile Barn Museum Fredon SussexSkylands RegionTransportation website, collection of over 300 sleds along with toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements
Solitude Heritage Museum 117 Van Syckles Road, Union Township, NJ.jpg Union HunterdonSkylands RegionMultiple website, early Hunterdon history, environmental and cultural center, operated by the Union Forge Heritage Association in the 1760 Joseph Turner House
Somers Point Historical Museum Somers Point AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal history website, operated by the Somers Point Historical Society
Somerville Fire Department Museum SomervilleSomersetSkylands RegionFirefightingOld fire engines and memorabilia
South Jersey Museum Glassboro GloucesterDelaware River RegionHistory website, includes Precolumbian Native American artifacts, Colonial items, the Pine Barrens, antique tools and equipment, area political history, farmsteads
Space Farms Zoo and Museum Sussex SussexSkylands RegionMultipleZoo with over 500 animals, museum includes antique cars, motorcycles, carriages and wagons, exhibits about Eskimos, Fluorescent minerals, weapons and rifles, tool barn, dolls and toys, blacksmith shop, miniature circus, train set, Native American arrowheads and artifacts, farm machinery
Spring Lake Historical Society Museum Spring Lake MonmouthShore RegionLocal history website
Stafford Township Heritage Park STAFFORD TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Stafford Township OceanShore RegionOpen air website, operated by the Stafford Township Historical Society, includes a historic church, store, railroad station, cottage, and 2 cemeteries
Statue of Liberty National Monument Liberty and Ellis Island.jpg Jersey CityHudsonGateway RegionHistoryAccessible by boat from Liberty State Park, includes the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island and Ellis Island and its immigration museum
Steamboat Dock Museum Keyport MonmouthShore RegionLocal history website, operated by the Keyport Historical Society, exhibits include plantation century, docks and shipping, steamboat building, oyster industry and other local companies
Stedman GalleryCamdenCamdenDelaware River RegionArt website, part of the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts at Rutgers–Camden
Sterling Hill Mining Museum Sterling-hill-mining-museum.png OgdensburgSussexSkylands RegionGeologyUnderground zinc mine and Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence
Stephen Crane House/ Arbutus Cottage ARBUTUS COTTAGE, AKA STEPHEN CRANE HOUSE, MONMOUTH COUNTY NJ.jpg Asbury Park MonmouthShore RegionBiographical website, home of author Stephen Crane
Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms Craftsman Farms.jpg Parsipanny MorrisSkylands RegionHistoric houseCraftsman-style home of Gustav Stickley
Stillwater Historical Museum Stillwater Township SussexSkylands RegionLocal history website, located in an old school house, operated by the Historical Society of Stillwater Township
Stone Harbor Museum Stone Harbor Cape MaySouth JerseyLocal history website, open seasonally
Stone Museum Monroe Township MiddlesexGateway RegionGeology website, minerals, fossils, tools, fluorescent minerals room
Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) Mt. Zion AME Churcuh.jpg Skillman, New Jersey SomersetSkylands RegionAfrican American website, located in a historic AME church, state and local African American history and culture
Sussex County Art & Heritage Council Gallery Newton SussexSkylands RegionArt website
Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum Menlo Park MiddlesexGateway RegionTechnologyAlso known as Menlo Park Museum, showcases many of the inventions of Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison National Historical Park West Orange EssexGateway RegionTechnology, historic house29 room Queen Ann-style mansion home of Thomas Edison and laboratory
Thomas Warne Museum Cedar Grove School.jpg Old Bridge Township MiddlesexGateway RegionLocal history website Run by the Madison–Old Bridge Township Historical Society
Toms River Maritime Museum TOMS RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM, OCEAN COUNTY.jpg Toms RiverOceanShore RegionMaritime website, operated by the Toms River Seaport Society
Township of Hamilton Historical Society Museum Mays Landing AtlanticSouth JerseyLocal history website
Township of Lebanon Museum at New Hampton 57 Musconetcong River Road, New Hampton, NJ - looking west.jpg New Hampton HunterdonSkylands RegionSchool website, 19th-century period schoolhouse [7]
Township of Ocean Historical Museum TOWNSHIP OF OCEAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM, OAKHURST, MONMOUTH COUNTY NJ.jpg Oakhurst MonmouthShore RegionLocal history website
Trailside Nature & Science Center Mountainside UnionGateway RegionNatural historyMuseum exhibits include mammals and birds of the Watchung Reservation, taxidermy and fluorescent minerals
Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie Trenton City Museum.JPG TrentonMercerDelaware River RegionMultipleLocated in the Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park, includes contemporary art, decorative arts, industrial memorabilia and area historical objects
Tuckerton Seaport TuckertonSeaport.jpg Tuckerton OceanShore RegionMaritimeWorking maritime village with decoy carvers, boat builders, basket makers and baymen; formerly known as the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen's Museum
United States Golf Association Museum USGA Museum.jpg Far Hills SomersetSkylands RegionSportsGolf memorabilia and artifacts
Updike Farmstead PrincetonMercerDelaware River RegionFarm website, operated by the Historical Society of Princeton
Van Harlingen Historical Society Farm MuseumMontgomerySomersetSkylands RegionAgriculture [4]
Van Liew-Suydam House Somerset SomersetSkylands RegionHistoric house19th-century Victorian farmhouse, open for events, operated by the Meadows Foundation
Van Nest-Hoff-Vannatta Farmstead Harmony Township WarrenSkylands RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Harmony Township Historical Society, historic farmstead buildings dating to the 18th century
Van Riper-Hopper Historic House Museum WaynePassaicGateway RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1876 Dutch colonial house, also location of Van Duyne House
Van Bunschooten Museum Wantage SussexSkylands RegionHistoric houseOperated by the Chinkchewunska Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, late 18th-century period house
Vernon Township Historical Society Museum Highland Lakes Sussex Skylands RegionLocal history website
Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center Holmdel MonmouthShore RegionHistoryHistory of the Vietnam war
Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society Museum Vineland CumberlandSouth JerseyHistory website, collections focus on 19th- and 20th-century regional history
Visual Arts Center of New JerseySummitUnionGateway RegionArt website, includes 3 galleries and a sculpture park
Walker-Combs-Hartshorne Farmstead (Oakley Farm Museum) Oakley Farmstead in Autumn 2021.jpg Freehold TownshipMonmouthShore RegionHistoric house and community garden website, Headquarters for the Freehold Township Heritage Society. It is the oldest farmstead in the state.
Wallace House Wallace House, Somerville, NJ - looking north.jpg SomervilleSomersetSkylands RegionHistoric house website, 1775 Georgian-style house adjacent to Old Dutch Parsonage, served as the headquarters of General George Washington during the second Middlebrook encampment (winter of 1778–79)
Walsh Gallery South Orange EssexGateway RegionArt website, part of Seton Hall University
Walt Whitman House WhitmanHouse-CamdenNJ1.jpg CamdenCamdenDelaware River RegionBiographicalHome of poet Walt Whitman
Warren County Historical Society Museum Belvidere WarrenSkylands RegionLocal history website, period rooms, Warren County memorabilia, antiques, textiles and folk art
Washington Crossing State Park Hopewell MercerDelaware River RegionMultipleIncludes Washington Crossing Visitor Center Museum about the American Revolution, the Johnson Ferry House, a historic house museum, the Washington Crossing State Park Nature Center and an observatory
Washington Township Historical Society Museum Fairview Avenue, Long Valley, NJ - German Valley School.jpg Long Valley MorrisSkylands RegionLocal history website
Waterloo Village Waterloo Village, NJ - Canal Museum.jpg Stanhope SussexSkylands RegionTransportation website, Canal Society of New Jersey headquarters and museum, Morris Canal, National Registered Historic Site in Allamuchy Mountain State Park
West Milford Museum West Milford PassaicGateway RegionLocal history website
Weston Museum NewarkEssexGateway RegionScienceContains items developed and manufactured by inventor Edward Weston
Westwood Museum Westwood BergenGateway RegionLocal history website, operated by the Westwood Heritage Society; located in the Westwood Train Station
The Wetlands Institute Stone Harbor Cape MaySouth JerseyNatural historyBirds, animals and ecosystem of the surrounding wetlands
WheatonArts Millville CumberlandSouth JerseyArtHouses Museum of Glass
Whippany Railway Museum Whippany MorrisSkylands RegionTransportation - RailroadRailroad cars and memorabilia
Wicoff House Museum Wicoff House Plainsboro NJ 7-25-2011.jpg Plainsboro MiddlesexGateway RegionLocal history website
William Trent House William Trent House, Trenton, NJ.jpg TrentonMercerDelaware River RegionHistoric house1719 house built for founder of Trenton, has served several times as the Governor's House
Woodruff Museum of Indian ArtifactsBridgetonCumberlandSouth JerseyNative American website, over 20,000 artifacts related to the Lenni-Lenape Tribe, located in the Bridgeton Free Public Library
Wortendyke Barn Museum Park Ridge BergenGateway RegionAgricultureOld-world Dutch barn and farm exhibits
Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center Berra Stadium jeh.jpg Little Falls PassaicGateway RegionSportsPermanent and rotating exhibits about baseball, Yankee history, and Yogi Berra, located on the campus of Montclair State University
Zimmerli Art Museum New BrunswickMiddlesexGateway RegionArtPart of Rutgers University, strengths in Russian and Soviet art, French 19th-century and American 19th- and 20th-century art, contemporary prints

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The John Reading Farmstead is a historic house located at 76 River Road by the South Branch Raritan River in Raritan Township, near Flemington in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It was built in 1760 for John Reading, former governor of the Province of New Jersey, 1757–1758. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978, for its significance in agriculture, architecture, politics, and exploration/settlement.

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