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Academy Of Natural Sciences 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-299-1000 ---------- Did you know that you can have a sleepover with your friends inside the Museum? Investigate the wonders of the museum, enjoy interactive lessons and meet some of our live animals! -- Ask an adult how you can have your very own birthday party at the Academy. At the Academy of Natural Sciences, we have four floors of exhibitions and activities centering on the environment and its diverse species that will educate and entertain visitors of all ages. Stroll among live butterflies, pet a live snake or hissing cockroach, learn about the importance of water, and much more. The Academy also houses 17 million specimens of plants, animals and other organisms, including rare library holdings that document scientific discovery from the 1500's to today. www.ansp.org Aircraft Museum ---------- A list and description of aircraft museums in the USA and International. www.yellowairplane.com/Museums.htm Air Victory Museum 68 Stacy Haines Road Lumberton, NJ 08048 609-267-4488 ---------- Lots of planes on display. www.airvictorymuseum.org - Coupon American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY ---------- Celebrated its 131 year history in 2000 www.amnh.org Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum 400 Fred Wehran Dr. Teterboro Airport, NJ ---------- Highlighting aviation milestones in the Garden State's 208 year history, exhibits include New Jersey made aircraft engines, rocket motors, a 1949 vintage Martin 202 airliner, a Vietnam veteran AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter, several other aircraft and helicopters, displays about such famous aviators as Lindbergh, Earhart, Chamberlin, Aldrin, Schirra, and others. A small plane lets kids play pilot. www.njahof.org === 2017 === Take a Virtual Tour... Click here for your free download! 2017 Open Cockpit Day dates: May 20/21, June 17/18, August 19/20, October 7/8, November 11/12 Please call the museum for further information. Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial 62 Battleship Place Camden, NJ 08103 Main number: 866-877-6262 or 856-966-1652 ---------- 887-feet 7-inches long. Great tour, informative and a small group of 25 people. They rip you off with the $7.00 parking fee. www.battleshipnewjersey.org CWJ Classic Automobile Museum 18 Claremont Road Bernardsville, NJ (908) 221-0908 ---------- The museum organizes rotating installations of American automobiles and art exhibitions that illustrate the role of the car in defining the social and economic climate of the country. It also has a collection of American convertibles from the 1940s, '50s and '60s that frequently are on display. Discovery Seashell Museum 2721 Asbury Avenue Ocean City, NJ 08226 609-398-2316 2721 ---------- This neat Museum and shop is associated with an important member of the sea shell industry in Florida and has connections throughout the world. Members of the Strange Family, operators of the Museum, are all certified divers and have traveled around the world collecting seashells. Visitors will see some of the rarest and finest seashell specimens such as the Glory of India cone. An unusual exhibit features freaks of nature, including the only Siamese Twin Helmet shell known to exist. In the Shell Yard more than 10,000 varieties of seashells can be seen, as well as fifteen different types of coral, carved shells, and mysterious air plants that grow in shells without the need of soil. Located on the Jersey Shore, the Museum is open during summer months -- perfect timing for beach combers who want to get a better idea of what they're looking for. Serious collectors will find that elusive Golden Cowry. The Shop offers shells and shell-craft items for sale to collectors at every level. www.shellmuseum.com Edison National Historic Site 211 Main St & Lakeside Ave. West Orange, NJ 973-324-9973 www.nps.gov/edis The Fleetwood Museum 614 Greenbrook Road North Plainfield, NJ 07063. 908-756-7810 ---------- The museum contains over 800 cameras, illustrating the 150 year evolution of camera design, and examples of many of the photographic processes which evolved during that period. www.fleetwoodmuseum.org Franklin Mineral Museum 32 Evans Street Franklin, New Jersey 07416 973- 827-3481 ---------- The Franklin Mineral Museum has the World's Largest systematic collections of Franklin-Sterling Hill and world-wide mineral specimens on public display. Truly a science learning center for future and present geologists, mineralogists, and local historians. The Museum's Fluorescent Exhibit is the most comprehensive display of Franklin-Sterling Hill fluorescent minerals in the world! www.franklinmineralmuseum.com Golden Classics Auto Museum & Sales Lakewood, NJ 732-370-2323 ---------- More than 150 classic cars on display. Collectibles, clothing and toys in the gift shop. Group tours welcome. Grounds For Sculpture  forecast forFor online driving directions, please use 126 Sculptors Way Hamilton, NJ 08619 (near Trenton) Real address is: 18 Fairgrounds Road Hamilton, NJ 08619 (near Trenton) 609- 586-0616 ---------- Grounds For Sculpture is a 35-acre sculpture park and museum that organizes changing Exhibitions of contemporary sculpture by American and internationally renowned artists who work in a wide range of media. In addition to the interior exhibition spaces, the facilities offer a variety of sites for placing works on view outdoors. To encourage visitors to come to the park, and to make their experience and understanding of contemporary art more enjoyable, Grounds For Sculpture provides publications, offers guided tours, and presents Special Events. www.groundsforsculpture.org Independence Seaport Museum Penn's Landing 211 South Columbus Blvd. & Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19106 Visitor Information 215.413.8655 ---------- Lots to see. www.phillyseaport.org  Discount..... Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum  forecast forPier 86 46th Street & 12th Avenue New York City, NY 212-245-0072 ---------- Lots to see aboard this 900 foot aircraft carrier. www.intrepidmuseum.org -- www.theinsider.com/nyc/museums/1intrepi.htm Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum Hopatcong State Park Landing, NJ 973-398-2616 ---------- Located in a rustic 19th century building that was a lock-tender's house on the Morris Canal, the museum offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the history of New Jersey's largest lake. Learn about building the Morris Canal and the forming of modern-day Lake Hopatcong, the canal's main source of water, and travel back to when it was a tourist mecca surrounded by some 40 hotels and rooming houses and the famed Bertrand Island Amusement Park for dancing and "nickel nights." www.lakehopatconghistory.com Liberty Hall Museum 1003 Morris Avenue Union, NJ 908-527-0400 ---------- Pay a visit to Liberty Hall Home of William Livingston New Jersey's First Governor. Built on the eve of the Revolution, Liberty Hall is associated with many of the events and individuals that have shaped our nation's destiny. Home to the prominent Livingston and Kean families, the saga of Liberty Hall includes the stories of men, women and children from many lands and many eras, stories that are waiting to be discovered. A chronicle of New Jersey history, glimpsed through the doors of one very special house. Enter and the past comes alive. Access to the Liberty Hall House Museum is through guided tours on a first-come, first-served basis. Visitors may take self-guided tours of the Carriage House and the Gardens. There is a 10 minute orientation film. Facilities include a museum shop, picnic area and parking. www.kean.edu/libertyhall Macculloch Hall Historical Museum 45 Macculloch Avenue Morristown, NJ 07960 (973) 538-2404 ---------- Four galleries dedicated to changing exhibits. http://maccullochhall.org Meadowlands Museum 91 Crane Avenue Rutherford, NJ 07070 201-935-1175 www.meadowlandsmuseum.org -- www.fieldtrip.com/nj/19351175.htm Mercer Museum 84 South Pine Street Doylestown, PA 18901 215-345-0210 ---------- Over 60% of the Museum's 50,000 artifacts, ranging from clock making tools to a Conestoga wagon, are exhibited. While your there checkout the castle, only a couple times a year, check under events. Tower Tour for Families -- Children and parents explore Henry Mercer's castle from basement to tower www.mercermuseum.org Discount Metropolitan Museum Of Art 81st Street. 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street New York City, NY Phone: 212-535-7710 ---------- The Museum parking garage, located at Fifth Avenue and 80th Street, is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. To receive a discount, Museum visitors must have their tickets validated at the Uris Center Information Desk near the Museum entrance at www.metmuseum.org Metz Bicycle Museum - CLOSED 54 West Main Street ( Rear Building) Freehold, NJ 07728 732-462-7363 ---------- The newly decorated facility is one of the world's finest collection of antique bicycles, dating from the 1850's to the 1950's. On display are hundreds of different bicycles of all kinds....boneshakers, high wheelers, quadracycles, tricycles, a "Zimmy", a lamplighter bicycle, children's bikes, trick bikes, and many other unusual and one-of-a-kind cycles. On display at the Metz Museum are extensive collection of children's riding toys, kitchen and household gadgets, antique mousetraps, cast iron bottle cap openers, pencil sharpeners, antique cars and lots more. Display cases and all of the walls are filled with the interesting items neatly displayed and labeled. Bicycle accessories, such as horns, seats, oil lanterns, bicycle tools and posters complete the displays. www.metzbicyclemuseum.com Montclair Art Museum 3 South Mountain Avenue Montclair, NJ 07042 973-746-5555 ---------- Check for current item on display. Also offering lots of events for children and adults. www.montclair-art.org Morris Museum 6 Normandy Heights Rd. Morristown, NJ 07960 973-971-3700 ---------- Displays approximately 48,000 objects, including fine and decorative arts; costumes and textiles; dolls and toys; natural science; mineralogy and paleontology; and anthropology. Includes Bickford Theater www.morrismuseum.org Museum of American Glass 501 Glasstown Rd Millville, NJ 08332 800 998 4552 ---------- The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to American glass, it encompasses one of the largest and finest collections in the world. More than 6,500 objects range from paperweights, fiber optics and Mason jars to Tiffany masterpieces. Adjacent is the T.C. Wheaton Glass Factory, a fully functioning glass studio modeled after the original 1888 factory. Visitors can watch and participate as studio artists work. www.wheatonvillage.org Museums In New York City New York City, NY ---------- List of museums. www.ny.com/nyc/museums/all.museums.html Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Main (NJ Rte 124) @Green Village Rd. Madison, NJ 973- 377-2982 ---------- More than 8800 artifacts related to 21 different trades preserve and interpret tools used before the rise of industrialization in the United States. Displayed are tools for woodworking, leather, metal and textile trades, building fragments and miscellaneous objects. Interpretive exhibits focus on the tools used and trades especially practiced in New Jersey. www.metc.org The Museum of Modern Art, New York 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019 212.708.9400 www.moma.org/menu/visit.htm Mutters Museum 19 South Twenty-Second Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-563-3737 ---------- (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia). Established by Thomas Dent Mutter in 1856, the Museum was intended to display medical rarities. Today its collections contain some 20,000 human specimens and medical instruments from the 19th century to the present. www.collphyphil.org Navel Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum 500 Forrestal Rd. Cape May Airport, NJ 08242 609-886-8787 ---------- NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum now boasts over 26 aircraft displays as well as exhibits of military memorabilia, engines, photographs and more. The Newark Museum 49 Washington Street Newark, NJ 07102 973-596-6550 ---------- The foremost collection of American art from the 18th to 20th centuries; decorative arts, Asian art, including the world-renowned Tibetan art collection. Adjacent is the Ballantine House, a restored 1885 mansion, home to the beer brewing family and a National Historic Landmark www.newarkmuseum.org New Jersey Children's Museum - CLOSED 599 Valley Health Plaza Paramus, NJ 201-262-5151 x10 ---------- The hands-on concept is alive and well here. Designed for children aged one to eight, 15,000 square feet of carpeted space is brightly decorated and divided into 30 rooms, each with a different theme appealing to different ages. www.njcm.com New Jersey Navel Museum 78 River Street Hackensack, NJ ---------- Go aboard a real world war II submarine the USS Ling. www.njnm.com New Jersey Museum Of Agriculture 103 College Farm Road North Brunswick, NJ 08902 732-249-2077 ---------- Nice activities for kids. The temporary location for George Street Playhouse while its building in New Brunswick is undergoing construction. https://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location/former-agricultural-museum-of-new-jersey New Jersey Naval Museum Court & River Streets Hackensack, NJ 201-342-3268 ---------- The USS Ling 297, a 312-foot long Balao Class World War II submarine, commissioned in 1945 for service in the Pacific. The war ended before the Ling saw active duty, so it served as a training ship. A tour gives visitors a feel for the courage it took for 95 sailors to brave the deep in small, Spartan quarters. Go inside a real World War II submarine. www.njnm.com New Jersey State Museum 205 West State St. Trenton, NJ 609-292-6464 Tuesday - Saturday, 9 am to 4:45pm Sunday, noon to 5 pm Closed Mondays & State Holidays ---------- Comprehensive exhibits cover archaeology, ethnology natural history, with artifacts of New Jersey's Lenni-Lenapes; fine arts galleries feature 20th century American art. A 150-seat, state-of-the-art planetarium presents regularly scheduled laser shows and other special programs. www.nj.gov/state/museum/Index.htm Nike Missile Base Tours Hartshorne Drive Sandy Hook, NJ 732-872-5970 ---------- The National Park Service restored and maintains an Nike Ajax Missile Site, part of a ring of Cold War-era defense installations. Nothing works in the site anymore, but it displays old radar equipment, salvaged missile casings and the original base structures. Hwy 36 east to Sandy Hook, then north into the Gateway National Recreation Area. When the road shrinks from four lanes to two, bear right to the old missile base. Hours: Tours in summer on scheduled weekends. (Call to verify) www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11152 Noyes Museum Of Art 733 Lily Lake Road Oceanville, NJ Between Smithville & Absecon 609-652-6166 15 minutes from Atlantic City, NJ ---------- The only art museum in the region presents a growing collection of American fine and folk art, vintage bird decoys and works by leading regional and national artists. www.noyesmuseum.org Discount..... The Paterson Museum 2 Market St. Paterson NJ 973-881-3874 Last visited on 9-09 ---------- 200,000 Photographs, locomotives, art exhibits, Paterson-made Colt firearms and the first submarine on display. Directions: I-80 West to exit for Main St. in Paterson. Turn left onto Main St., then left onto Grand St. Go approx. 4 blocks and turn right onto Spruce St. 2 blocks to Market St., and Museum on corner. www.thepatersonmuseum.com Pequot Museum 110 Pequot Trail Mashantucket, CT 06338 800-411-9671 ---------- The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, a new state-of-the-art, tribally owned-and-operated 308,000 square foot complex. www.pequotmuseum.org Philadelphia Museum Of Art Philadelphia, PA 215) 763-8100 ---------- Founded in 1876, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. www.philamuseum.org Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum 1441 Boardwalk (New York Ave.) Atlantic City, NJ 08401 609-347-2001 ---------- Strange exhibits, films interactive funhouse. www.ripleysatlanticcity.com Shippen Manor Museum 8 Belvidere Avenue Oxford, NJ 07863 908-453-4381 Warren County ---------- Furnished with 18th and 19th century period pieces. www.wcchc.org Snowmobile Barn Museum Fredon -- Newton, NJ 973-383-1708 ---------- Housed in a TWO 6,000 square foot barns, the museum traces over 90 years of snowmobiling history with a rare and magnificent collection of over 130 sleds and thousands of assorted collectible items such as toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements, and much more. www.snowmobilebarn.com South Street Sea Port Museum 12 Fulton Street New York City, NY 10038 212.748.8786 ---------- Lots to see and do. www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org Sterling Hill Mining Museum 30 Plant Street Ogdensburg, NJ 07439 973-209-7212 ---------- A real underground zinc mine with mile tour of tunnels. Exhibit hall features mining artifacts, rare minerals, equipment, etc. http://sterlinghill.org Discount The Stickley Museum At Craftsman Farm 2352 Rt. 10-West, # 5, Morris Plains, NJ 07950 ---------- Today the Stickley Museum makes its home at Craftsman Farms, now a National Historic Landmark occupying 30 acres of the original 650-acre tract. www.stickleymuseum.org - Space available for meetings or parties. Meadowlands Environment Center Two DeKorte Plaza Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 201-460-8300 ---------- Designed for kids. www.fieldtrip.com/nj/14608300.htm University Of Pennsylvania Museum 3260 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-898-4001 ---------- The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, through its research, collections, exhibitions, and educational programming, advances understanding of the world's cultural heritage. We are proud of our 115-year history, our important mission, and our vision for the future. www.museum.upenn.edu USGA Golf House Museum & Library 77 Liberty Corner Rd Far Hills, NJ 07931 ---------- The USGA Museum is an educational institution dedicated to fostering an appreciation for the game of golf, its participants, and the Association. It serves as a caretaker and steward for the games history, supporting the Associations role in ensuring the games future. By collecting, preserving, and interpreting the historical developments of the game in the United States, with an emphasis on the Association and its championships, the Museum promotes a greater understanding of golfs cultural significance for a worldwide audience. www.usgamuseum.com Vintage Automobile Museum of New Jersey PO Box 234 Beachwood, NJ 08722 (732) 797-1456 ---------- This is a museum in the making even though it had its conceptual birth with the formation in 1969 of the Vintage Automobile Club of Ocean County. A site has been selected for the physical location of the museum. Updates are available on the Web site. www.vintageautomuseum.org Write Like an Egyptian -------- Your name in hieroglyphs, the way an Egyptian scribe might have written it. www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center On the campus of Montclair State University 8 Quarry Road Little Falls, NJ 07424 973.655.2378 ---------- Located on the campus of Montclair State University, the Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center houses permanent and rotating exhibits about baseball and Yankee history as well as Yogi Berra's storied career. www.yogiberramuseum.org |
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