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.

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

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Name Location Region Area of study Summary
Allaire Village Wall History park 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.
American Labor Museum and Botto House National Landmark Haledon
Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial Camden Museum Ship USS New Jersey (BB-62)
Grounds for Sculpture Hamilton Township
Hoboken Historical Museum Hoboken
Indian Heritage Museum Rancocas Exhibits American Indian history and culture.
Indian King Tavern Museum Haddonfield Built in 1750.
Infoage Science/History Learning Center
at Camp Evans		 Wall Township
Macculloch Hall Morristown
MacKenzie Museum Howell Webpage
Montclair Art Museum Montclair
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Madison Exhibits the history and lifeways of ordinary people of pre-industrial New Jersey, including hand tools, products and household objects
Museum of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove Ocean Grove History Approximately 15,000 artifacts & pieces relative to the history of Ocean Grove, the Holiness Movement, Camp Meetings, Methodism, Monmouth County & 19th Century Life. Webpage
Newark Museum Newark
Newton Fire Museum Newton Firefighting Website
New Jersey Children's Museum Paramus Children's For toddlers and preschoolers. Website
The Noyes Museum of Art Oceanville Website
The Art Museum - Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey
Old Barracks Museum Trenton History American Revolutionary War museum site; has public tours and exhibits
New Jersey Naval Museum Hackensack
Historic Speedwell Morristown
Children's Museum Egg Harbor
Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum Landing
Museum of the History of Phsychological Instrumentation Upper Montclair
Miller-Cory House Westfield
A. J. Meerwald Museum ship Delaware Bay oyster dredgeboat built in 1928.
Discovery House Children's
Garden State Discovery Museum Cherry Hill Children's
Rutgers University Department of Geology Museum New Brunswick
Snowmobile Barn Museum Fredon, New Jersey Housed in a 6,000 square foot barn; collection of over 130 sleds along with toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements
Sterling Hill Mining Museum Ogdensburg Underground zinc mine open for tours.
Trenton City Museum at the Ellarslie Mansion Trenton At Cadwalader Park; owned and maintained by Trenton city government; Website
Underground Railroad Museum Lawnside
Waterhouse Museum Toms River Art Exhibits art of Charles Waterhouse.
Waterloo Village Stanhope National Registered Historic Site in Allamuchy Mountain State Park
West Milford Museum West Milford, New Jersey
Whippany Railway Museum Whippany Transportation
The Wonder Museum East Windsor Children's
Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center Little Falls Houses permanent and rotating exhibits about baseball, Yankee history, and Yogi Berra.

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