List of museums in New Jersey

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.

To use the sortable table, click on the icons at the top of each column to sort that column in alphabetical order; click again for reverse alphabetical order.

Defunct Museums

* Asbury Park Rock 'N Roll Museum, Asbury Park, closed in 2004 [http://www.asburyboardwalk.com/rockroll1.htm Asbury Park Boardwalk website information] , [http://www.beyondthepalace.com/newjersey/rnr.html Information and photos of the Asbury Park Rock 'N Roll Museum] , [http://www.palaceamusements.com/ Palace Amusements online site]
*Museum of Natural History at Princeton University, Guyot Hall, Princeton, closed in 2000 [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6806/full/407825b0.html "Anger as Princeton closes 'inspirational' museum"] , [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2000/10/13/news/1496.shtml?type=printable Daily Princetonian, Oct. 13, 2000, "Princeton to relocate tiger skeletons from natural history museum to Frist center"]
*Wonder Museum, East Windsor [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3697/is_200403/ai_n9382641 Mercer Business, Mar 01, 2004, new store to be located in the location of the former Wonder Museum]

ee also

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*Historic landmarks in New Jersey
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*Museums list
*Nature Centers in New Jersey
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*Registered Historic Places in New Jersey

Resources

* [http://njgin.state.nj.us/OIT_TravelGuide/attraction_results.jsp?category_idn=129413&searchNear=all&region=&keyword=&street=&cityStateZip=&place=&radius=&categoryName=Museums&x=10&y=13 New Jersey Tourism: Museums]
* [http://www.lhsnj.org/links&advocates.html League of Historical Societies of New Jersey]

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