# 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.

## List

| Name | Location | County | Region | Area of study | Summary |
| Absecon Light | Atlantic City | Atlantic | South Jersey | Lighthouse | Lighthouse and local history museum |
| Acorn Hall | Morristown | Morris | Skylands Region | Historic house | Operated 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 | Atlantic | South Jersey | African 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 Region | African American | New Jersey African American history and African artifacts |
| AIDS Museum | Newark | Essex | Gateway Region | Medical | Planned museum |
| Air Victory Museum | Mount Laurel | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Aviation | website |
| A. J. Meerwald | Commercial Township | Cumberland | South Jersey | Museum ship | Delaware Bay oyster dredgeboat built in 1928 |
| Allaire Village | 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 | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic house | Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1710 tavern house |
| American Hungarian Museum | Passaic | Passaic | Gateway Region | Ethnic | website, also known as Hungarian Folklore Museum, decorated eggs, lace, pottery, traditional clothing |
| American Indian Heritage Museum | Westampton Township | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Native American | website, American Indian history and culture, operated by the Powhatan Renape Nation |
| American Labor Museum | Haledon | Passaic | Gateway Region | History | Victorian house with period rooms, labor exhibits, labor and immigrant library; historic meeting site for silk mill workers |
| Army Reserve Mobilization Museum | Fort Dix | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Military | website, also known as Fort Dix Military Museum, history of U.S. Army Reserve, open to the public by appointment |
| Atlantic City Art Center | Atlantic City | Atlantic | South Jersey | Art | website |
| Atlantic City Historical Museum | Atlantic City | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | website, presented by the Atlantic City Free Public Library at the Garden Pier |
| Atlantic County Historical Society | Somers Point | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | website, household items and decorative arts, fine arts, weaponry, maritime artifacts and toys |
| Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey | Teterboro | Bergen | Gateway Region | Transportation - Aerospace | New Jersey's aviation and space heritage |
| Avalon History Center | Avalon | Cape May | South Jersey | Local history | website |
| Bainbridge House | Princeton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Local history | website, headquarters and museum for the Historical Society of Princeton |
| Bayonne Community Museum | Bayonne | Hudson | Gateway Region | Local history | under development as facility is restored |
| Bayonne Fire Museum | Bayonne | Hudson | Gateway Region | Firefighting | |
| Barclay Farmstead Museum | Cherry Hill | Camden | Delaware River Region | Historic house | 1816 furnished farmhouse on 32 acres (130,000 m$^2$) with trails, living history programs |
| Barnegat Historic Heritage Village | Barnegat Light | Ocean | Shore Region | Open 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 Light | Ocean | Shore Region | Local history | Located in 1903 schoolhouse, includes Edith Duff Gwinn Garden |
| Barnegat Lighthouse | Barnegat Light | Ocean | Shore Region | Lighthouse | Lighthouse and museum interpretive center |
| Barron Arts Center | Woodbridge | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Art | Art center website |
| Batsto Village | Washington Township | Burlington | South Jersey | Living | Includes 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 | Camden | Camden | Delaware River Region | Museum Ship | USS New Jersey (BB-62) |
| Bay Head Historical Society Museum | Bay Head | Ocean | Shore Region | Historic house | website, 19th-century period farmhouse |
| Beavertown History Center | Lincoln Park | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | Operated by the Beaverton Historical Society |
| Belskie Museum of Art & Science | Closter | Bergen | Gateway Region | Art | website, works of sculptor Abram Belskie and 10 changing exhibitions each year |
| Benjamin Temple House | Ewing Township | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | website, 18th-century house, operated by the Ewing Township Historic Preservation Society |
| Bergen Museum of Art and Science | Hackensack | Bergen | Gateway Region | Multiple | Art and science, currently closed and seeking new location |
| Berkeley Historical Museum | Bayville | Ocean | Shore Region | Local history | |
| Blackwells Mills Canal House | Franklin Township | Somerset | Skylands Region | Transportation | 19th-century bridge tender's house on the Delaware and Raritan Canal |
| Blairstown Museum | Blairstown | Warren | Kittatinny Valley | Local History | Artifact 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 | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | Located in the Colonial Revival and Victorian Gothic styles house of Dr. John L. Taylor |
| Boxwood Hall | Elizabeth | Union | Gateway Region | Historic house | Home from 1772 to 1795 of Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress |
| Brearley House | Lawrenceville | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Operated by the Lawrenceville Historical Society, restored mid-18th-century house |
| Bedensville Schoolhouse | Montgomery | Somerset | Skylands Region | School | Operated by Van Harlingen Historical Society for education programs |
| Brick Academy | Basking Ridge | Somerset | Skylands Region | Local history | Operated by the Historical Society of the Somerset Hills |
| Bridgeton Hall of Fame All Sports Museum | Bridgeton | Cumberland | South Jersey | Hall of fame - sports | information |
| Brigantine History Museum | Brigantine | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | Operated by the Brigantine Historical Society |
| Buccleuch Mansion | New Brunswick | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated by the Jersey Blue chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| Buckelew Mansion | Jamesburg | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated by the Jamesburg Historical Association |
| Burlington County Historical Society | Burlington City | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Open 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 | Mount Holly | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Prison | Operated by Burlington County Parks and the Prison Museum Association |
| Butler Museum | Butler | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | Located in an old railroad station |
| Caesar Hoskins Log Cabin | Mauricetown | Cumberland | South Jersey | Historic house | 18th-century house, open by appointment |
| Caldwell Parsonage | Union | Union | Gateway Region | Local history | Operated by the Union Township Historical Society |
| Califon Historical Society Station Museum | Califon | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Railroad | website, local history and railroad artifacts |
| Camden County Museum | Camden | Camden | Delaware River Region | Local 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 | Camden | Camden | Delaware River Region | Maritime | 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 | Mercer | Delaware River Region | History | website, Civil War and Native American exhibits |
| Cape May Lighthouse | Cape May Point | Cape May | South Jersey | Maritime | Located in Cape May Point State Park |
| Cape May Maritime Museum | Cape May | Cape May | South Jersey | Maritime | website, planned museum, Cape May County's maritime heritage |
| Carter House | Summit | Union | Gateway Region | Historic house | website, home of the Summit Historical Society, mid-18th-century house |
| Center for the Arts in Southern New Jersey | Marlton | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Art | website |
| Centennial Cottage | Ocean Grove | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic 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 | Essex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated 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 Region | Children's | website |
| Church of the Presidents | Long Branch | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic church | Former Episcopal chapel on the Jersey Shore where seven United States presidents worshiped |
| Clarke House Museum | Princeton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Revolutionary period home located in Princeton Battlefield State Park |
| Clifton Arts Center | Clifton | Passaic | Gateway Region | Art | website, community art gallery and outdoor sculpture park |
| Collings-Knight House | Collingswood | Camden | Delaware River Region | Historic house | website, operated by the Friends of Collings-Knight House |
| Colonial House Museum | Cape May | Cape May | South Jersey | Historic 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 | Chester Township | Morris | Skylands Region | Mill | website, Operated by the Morris County Park Commission, restored 19th-century gristmill |
| Cornelius Low House | Piscataway | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Local history | Also known as Cornelius Low House / Middlesex County Museum, changing exhibits of state and local history |
| Country Living Museum | Hopewell Township | Cumberland | South Jersey | History | 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 Borough | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic house | Operated 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 | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Local history | website, operated by the Cranbury Historical and Preservation Society |
| Crane House and Museum | Montclair | Essex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated by the Montclair Historical Society, Federal mansion with 18th- and 19th-century furnishings |
| Crane-Phillips House | Cranford | Union | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated by the Cranford Historical Society, 19th-century house |
| Cumberland County Prehistorical Museum | Greenwich Township | Cumberland | South Jersey | Archaeology | website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, stone and bone artifacts, pottery, native crafts, fossils |
| Delaware Bay Museum | Bivalve | Cumberland | South Jersey | Maritime | website, operated by the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, oyster industry and shipping |
| Dennis Township Museum and History Center | Dennis Township | Cape May | South Jersey | Local history | website, located in the Old School House |
| DePace Sports Museum and Library | Collingswood | Camden | Delaware River Region | Sports | website, Sports history museum and library based on the collections of Dr. Nicholas L. DePace |
| Denville Historical Society & Museum | Denville | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | |
| Dey Mansion | Wayne | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic house | General George Washington's revolutionary war headquarters in the Preakness Valley |
| Discovery Shell Museum | Ocean City | Cape May | South Jersey | Natural history | Retail store with museum display of over 10,000 species of seashells from all over the world |
| Double Trouble State Park | Bayville | Ocean | Shore Region | Open-air | Includes Double Trouble Historic Village, a former company town, a sawmill, and a cranberry sorting and packing house |
| Dover History Museum | Dover | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | website, operated by the Dover Area Historical Society |
| Dr. William Robinson Plantation Museum | Clark | Union | Gateway Region | Historic house | House dating back to 1690, operated by the Clark Historical Society |
| Drake House Museum | Plainfield | Union | Gateway Region | Local history | Building owned by the City of Plainfield, museum operated by the Historical Society of Plainfield |
| Drumthwacket | Princeton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Official residence of the governor of New Jersey, built in 1835 |
| East Brunswick Museum | East Brunswick | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Local history | website Located in Old Bridge |
| East Jersey Olde Towne Village | Piscataway | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Open air | Includes church, tavern, schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, barracks and several homes |
| East Point Light | Heislerville | Cumberland | South Jersey | Maritime | |
| Eatontown Historical Museum | Eatontown | Monmouth | Shore Region | Local history | |
| Edward Compton House | Mauricetown | Cumberland | South Jersey | Historic house | Late 19th-century Victorian house, operated by the Mauricetown Historical Society |
| Ellis Island | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | History | Museum of immigration; ferry boats depart from Liberty State Park |
| Ely House Museum | Hightstown | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | website, operated by the Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society |
| Emlen Physick Estate | Cape May | Cape May | South Jersey | Living | Victorian mansion, operated by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts |
| Firehouse Gallery | Bordentown | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Art | Focuses on work of artist Eric Gibbons |
| The Fleetwood Museum of Art and Photographica | North Plainfield | Somerset | Skylands Region | Photography | website, cameras, photographic equipment, art and science of photography |
| Fort Hancock Historic District | Middletown Township | Monmouth | Shore Region | Multiple | Part 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 | Fort Lee | Bergen | Gateway Region | Military | American Revolution fort site, center has exhibits about the fort |
| Fort Lee Museum | Fort Lee | Bergen | Gateway Region | Local history | Operated by the Fort Lee Historical Society, located in the 1922 Judge Moore House, adjacent to Monument Park |
| Foster–Armstrong House | Montague | Sussex | Skylands Region | Historic house | Facebook site, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History, late 19th-century house |
| Fosterfields Living Historical Farm | Morris Township | Morris | Skylands Region | Agriculture | 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 | Sussex | Skylands Region | Natural history | Over 4000 mineral specimens with a large display of fluorescent minerals, mine replica, fossils, Native American artifacts |
| Friar Mountain Model Railroad Museum | Sparta | Sussex | Skylands Region | Railroad | website, model train displays, also American Revolutionary War history |
| Garden State Discovery Museum | Cherry Hill | Camden | Delaware River Region | Children's | |
| Garretson Forge and Farm | Fair Lawn | Bergen | Gateway Region | Living | Living Dutch farm museum |
| George F. Boyer Historical Museum | Wildwood | Cape May | South Jersey | Local history | website, operated by the Wildwood Historical Society, includes National Marbles Hall of Fame |
| George Segal Gallery | Montclair | Essex | Gateway Region | Art | website, part of Montclair State University |
| Gibbon House Museum | Greenwich Township | Cumberland | South Jersey | Historic 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 | Little Egg Harbor Township | Ocean | Shore Region | Local 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 | Gloucester | Delaware River Region | Law enforcement | |
| Greenfield Hall | Haddonfield | Camden | Delaware River Region | Local history | Operated 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 | Camden | Delaware River Region | Historic house | 1715 stone house, open for special events, 3rd floor museum of local history |
| Grover Cleveland Birthplace | Caldwell | Essex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Birthplace of President Grover Cleveland, artifacts from the 1830s to 1850s |
| Grounds for Sculpture | Hamilton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Art | 35-acre (140,000 m$^2$) sculpture park and indoor art gallery |
| Dirck Gulick House | Montgomery Township | Somerset | Skylands Region | Historic house | website, operated by the Van Harlingen Historical Society |
| Hackettstown Historical Society Museum | Hackettstown | Warren | Skylands Region | Local history | website |
| Hageman Farm | Somerset | Somerset | Skylands Region | Historic house | 19th-century farmhouse and barns, open for events, operated by the Meadows Foundation |
| Hamilton–Van Wagoner House Museum | Clifton | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic 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 Center | Hammonton | Atlantic | South Jersey | Art | website |
| Hancock House | Lower Alloways Creek Township | Salem | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Mid-18th-century house, site of the 1778 Hancock's Bridge massacre |
| Harriet Tubman Museum | Cape May | Cape May | South Jersey | Historic house | website, life and work of Harriet Tubman, former Macedonia Baptist Church Parsonage |
| Havens Homestead Museum | Brick | Ocean | Shore Region | Historic house | website, operated by the Brick Township Historical Society |
| Hereford Inlet Light | Wildwood | Cape May | South Jersey | Lighthouse | Victorian style keepers house and lighthouse |
| Heritage Glass Museum | Glassboro | Gloucester | Delaware River Region | Art | Area historic glass making and contemporary glass art |
| The Hermitage | Ho-Ho-Kus | Bergen | Gateway Region | Historic house | 18th-century Gothic revival home |
| Hill Memorial Museum | Newton | Sussex | Skylands Region | Local history | Operated by the Sussex County Historical Society |
| Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum | Oradell | Bergen | Gateway Region | Art | website, wildlife art |
| Historical Society of Bloomfield Museum | Bloomfield | Essex | Gateway Region | Local history | website, located in the children's wing of the Bloomfield Public Library |
| Historic Cold Spring Village | Cold Spring | Cape May | South Jersey | Open air | website, Early American (1790–1840) open-air living history museum, open late May through mid-September |
| Historic Longstreet Farm | Holmdel | Monmouth | Shore Region | Living | 1890s living historical farm located in Holmdel Park |
| Historic New Bridge Landing | River Edge | Bergen | Gateway Region | Historic houses | Operated 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 | Morristown | Morris | Skylands Region | Open air | Former 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 | Monmouth | Shore Region | Open air | website, 1754 Waln House, operating 19th-century gristmill and farm buildings on 36 acres (150,000 m$^2$) |
| Historical Society of Penns Grove, Carneys Point and Oldmans Museum | Penns Grove | Salem | Delaware River Region | Local history | website |
| Hoboken Historical Museum | Hoboken | Hudson | Gateway Region | Local history | |
| Hoboken Fire Museum | Hoboken | Hudson | Gateway Region | Firefighting | |
| Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum | Delaware Township | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Agriculture | website, includes print shop, woodworking shop, kitchen, John Holcombe House, doctor/dentist office, timber working tools, dairy exhibit, loom, blacksmith shop, tractor barn |
| Holmes-Hendrickson House | Holmdel | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic house | Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association Museum, 1754 Dutch farm house |
| Hope Historical Society Museum | Hope | Warren | Skylands Region | Local history | |
| Hopewell Museum | Hopewell | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Local history | Includes antiques, Native American artifacts |
| Hopper-Goetschius House | Upper Saddle River | Bergen | Gateway Region | Living | Operated by the Upper Saddle River Historical Society, early-18th-century house |
| Howell Living History Farm | Hopewell Township | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Agriculture | Facility of the Mercer County Park Commission; 1900 living farm museum |
| Hunterdon Art Museum | Clinton | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Art | website, contemporary art, craft and design |
| Hunterdon County Historical Society | Flemington | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Historic house | Operates the mid 19th-century Empire period Doric House by appointment and for events |
| Hunter-Lawrence-Jessup House | Woodbury | Gloucester | Delaware River Region | Local history | Operated by the Gloucester County Historical Society |
| Imagine That Discovery Museum for Children | Florham Park | Morris | Skylands Region | Children's | website |
| Indian King Tavern Museum | Haddonfield | Camden | Delaware River Region | Historic tavern | Built in 1750, site where New Jersey was legally created |
| InfoAge | Wall | Monmouth | Shore Region | Multiple | website, located at Camp Evans, includes National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, New Jersey shipwrecks, military electronics, computers, vintage radios |
| Insectropolis | Toms River | Ocean | Shore Region | Natural history | website, live and mounted insects, interactive exhibits |
| Ireland Hoffer House | Williamstown | Gloucester | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Facebook site, operated by the Monroe Township Historical Society |
| Isaac Watson House | Hamilton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | 18th-century house, headquarters of the New Jersey State Society of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution |
| Island Heights Cottage Museum | Island Heights | Ocean | Shore Region | Local history | website, operated by the Island Heights Cultural & Heritage Association |
| Jack Allen Memorial Country Living Museum | Southampton | Burlington | Delaware River Region | History | website, country store, bank display, farm and country artifacts |
| Jacobus Vanderveer House & Museum | Bedminster | Somerset | Skylands Region | Historic house | 18th-century Dutch frame house associated with the Pluckemin encampment of 1778-79 |
| James Wilson Marshall House | Lambertville | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Historic house | Operated by the Lambertville Historical Society, mid-19th-century period house |
| Jersey City Museum | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | Art | American visual art and material culture, currently closed |
| Jersey Explorer Children's Museum | East Orange | Essex | Gateway Region | Children's | website |
| Jersey Shore Children's Museum | Mays Landing | Atlantic | South Jersey | Children's | website, hands-on discovery center that stimulates creativity, imagination and learning through interactive play |
| Jewish Heritage Museum of Monmouth County | Freehold Township | Monmouth | Shore Region | Ethnic - Jewish | website |
| Jewish Museum of New Jersey | Newark | Essex | Gateway Region | Ethnic - Jewish | Oldest synagogue in continuous use in Newark, exhibitions |
| Jim and Mary Lee Museum | Port Warren | Warren | Skylands Region | History | Site of Morris Canal Inclined Plane 9 West, canal buildings and turbine |
| Jim Kirk Maritime Room | Linwood | Atlantic | South Jersey | Maritime | Operated by the Linwood Historical Society at the Linwood Library, ship models, maritime displays |
| John Abbot II House | Hamilton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | website, 1730 colonial house, operated by the Historical Society of Hamilton Township |
| John Ballantine House | Newark | Essex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Part 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 | Cumberland | South Jersey | Maritime | website, operated by the Cumberland County Historical Society, builders' models of local craft, tools, blocks, riggings |
| John F. Peto Studio Museum | Island Heights | Ocean | Shore Region | Historic house | House and studio of trompe-l'œil artist John F. Peto |
| Kearney House | Alpine | Bergen | Gateway Region | Historic house | 18th-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 | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Late 18th-century house, operated by Kearny Cottage Historical Society |
| Kearney Museum | Kearney | Hudson | Gateway Region | Local history | Located in the Kearney Public Library |
| Keyport Fire Museum | Keyport | Monmouth | Shore Region | Firefighting | Fire department history and fire prevention |
| Kidsbridge Tolerance Museum | Ewing | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Children's | website, focus is understanding and interacting with racial and ethnic differences, open by appointment |
| King Store & Homestead Museum | Ledgewood | Morris | Skylands Region | Historic house | Operated by the Roxbury Historic Trust |
| Kirby's Mill | Medford | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Mill | Restored grist mill dating to 1778 |
| Kuser Farm Mansion | Hamilton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | website, late 19th-century mansion and outbuildings |
| Lacey Schoolhouse Museum | Forked River | Ocean | Shore Region | Local history | website, operated by the Lacey Historical Society |
| Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum | Landing | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | website, located on the grounds of Hopatcong State Park |
| Lakehurst Historical Museum | Lakehurst | Ocean | Shore Region Wednesdays & Sundays from 12:30 P.M. to 3:P.M | Local history | website, operated by the Borough of Lakehurst Historical Society |
| Lakewood Heritage Museum | Lakewood | Ocean | Shore Region | Local history | website |
| Lambert Castle | Paterson | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated by the Passaic County Historical Society, late-19th-century period rooms and changing exhibits about Passaic County history |
| Latvian Ethnographic Museum | Howell | Monmouth | Shore Region | Ethnic | website, information, folk costumes, hand woven belts and blankets, colorful knitted woolen mittens, jewelry, operated by the NJ Latvian Society |
| Leedsville Schoolhouse | Linwood | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | Operated by the Linwood Historical Society, exhibits of local history and culture |
| "Lest We Forget" - Black Holocaust Museum of Slavery | Lawnside | Camden | Delaware River Region | History | website, private collection of slavery artifacts and Jim Crow memorabilia, available by appointment |
| Liberty Hall Museum | Elizabeth | Union | Gateway Region | Historic house | Victorian style mansion, located at Kean University |
| Liberty Science Center | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | Science | Located in Liberty State Park |
| Little Red Schoolhouse | Lyndhurst | Bergen | Gateway Region | Local history | Operated by the Lyndhurst Historical Society |
| Little Red Schoolhouse Museum | Waretown | Ocean | Shore Region | School | Operated by the Waretown Historical Society |
| Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences | Loveladies | Ocean | Shore Region | Art | website, free public art gallery |
| Long Beach Island Museum | Beach Haven | Ocean | Shore Region | Local history | website, operated by the Long Beach Island Historical Association |
| Long Pond Ironworks State Park | Hewitt | Passaic | Gateway Region | Industry | Includes Long Pond Ironworks Museum |
| Longport Museum | Longport | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | Operated by the Longport Historical Society |
| Macculloch Hall Historical Museum | Morristown | Morris | Skylands Region | Historic house | website, showcases 18th- and 19th-century American and English fine and decorative arts |
| Magnolia Train Station Museum | Magnolia | Camden | Delaware River Region | Local history | website, operated by the Magnolia Historical Society |
| MacKenzie Museum | Howell | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic house | website, operated by the Howell Historical Society |
| Mana Contemporary | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | Art | Exhibition space for contemporary art, includes the Richard Meier Model Museum |
| Margate Historical Society Museum | Margate | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | New museum planned in Margate City Hall |
| Marine Mammal Stranding Center | Brigantine | Atlantic | South Jersey | Natural history | Wildlife rehabilitation center for marine animals, includes natural history museum |
| Marlpit Hall | Middletown | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic house | Operated by the Monmouth County Historical Association, 1756 home that is a stop on the New Jersey Women's Heritage Trail |
| Maywood Station Museum | Maywood | Bergen | Gateway Region | Railway | Historic train station and exhibits of railroad artifacts |
| Mead–Van Duyne House | Wayne | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic house | Dutch stone colonial house, on the same property as the Van Riper-Hopper House |
| Meadowlands Museum | Rutherford | Bergen | Gateway Region | Local history | Antique toys, rocks and minerals, period rooms, changing exhibits |
| Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum | Rahway | Union | Gateway Region | Historic tavern | Early tavern life and stagecoach transportation |
| Metlar–Bodine House Museum | Piscataway | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Plans to add exhibit on Ross Hall |
| Millbrook Village | Blairstown | Warren | Skylands Region | Living | website, located in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, recreated turn-of-the-century village |
| Millburn-Short Hills Historical Society Museum | Short Hills | Essex | Gateway Region | Local history | website, located at the Short Hills train station |
| Miller-Cory House | Westfield | Union | Gateway Region | Living | 18th-century farmhouse with costumed docents demonstrating colonial crafts |
| Millville Army Air Field Museum | Millville | Cumberland | South Jersey | Aviation | 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 | Monmouth | Shore Region | Military | American Revolutionary War battlefield site, visitor center exhibits and 18th-century Craig House |
| Monmouth County Historical Association Museum | Freehold | Monmouth | Shore Region | Local history | Includes art, furniture, ceramics, textiles, military artifacts |
| Monmouth Museum | Lincroft | Monmouth | Shore Region | Multiple | website, art, cultural history and science, children's wing and planetarium, located on the campus of Brookdale Community College |
| Montclair Art Museum | Montclair | Essex | Gateway Region | Art | Collections include Hudson River School, portraiture, American Impressionism, the American Scene, Modernism, Abstract Expressionism and 20th-century works by African-American artists |
| Montville Township Museum | Montville | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | operated by the Montville Township Historical Society |
| Morris Museum | Morristown | Morris | Skylands Region | Multiple | website, Costumes and textiles, fine art, decorative art, dolls and toys, natural science, geology, paleontology, anthropology |
| Morris Plains Museum | Morris Plains | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | website |
| Morristown National Historical Park | Morristown | Morris | Skylands Region | History | Three sites important during the American Revolution: the Ford Mansion, a historic house museum, Fort Nonsense and Jockey Hollow |
| Morven Museum & Garden | Princeton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Former 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 | Monmouth | Shore Region | Agriculture | website, agriculture and horticulture exhibits |
| Mount Tabor Historical Society Museum | Mount Tabor | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | website, located at the Short Hills train station |
| Mullica Township Historical Society & Museum | Nesco | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | website, located in the former building of Hilda S Frame School |
| Museum of Cape May County | Cape May Court House | Cape May | South Jersey | History | Furnishings, 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 | Morris | Skylands Region | History | History and lifeways of ordinary people of pre-industrial New Jersey, including hand tools, products and household objects |
| Museum of Russian Art | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | Art | Contemporary Russian art |
| Museum of the Historical Society of Ocean Grove | Ocean Grove | Monmouth | Shore Region | Local 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 Foundation | New Brunswick | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Ethnic - Hungarian | website, Hungarian immigrant life including fine art, folk art and folk life |
| Museum of White Township | White Township | Warren | Skylands Region | Local history | Operated by the White Township Historical Society |
| Nail House Museum | Bridgeton | Cumberland | South Jersey | Local history | |
| National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey | Sea Girt | Monmouth | Shore Region | Military | Role of the New Jersey Militia and National Guard in state history |
| National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey | Lawrenceville | Mercer | Shore Region | Military | Includes weapons, uniforms and other equipment, 20 tanks, vehicles and cannon |
| Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum | Lower Township | Cape May | South Jersey | Aviation | Located at Cape May Airport, aircraft, engines, aviation artifacts, military memorabilia, aircraft engines and more housed in a 92,000-square-foot (8,500 m$^2$) all-wooden hangar |
| Navesink Twin Lights | Highlands | Monmouth | Shore Region | Lighthouse | Lighthouse and museum |
| Navy Lakehurst Information Center | Lakehurst | Ocean | Shore Region | Aviation | 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 Stonehouse | Montague | Sussex | Skylands Region | Historic house | website, operated by the Montague Association for Restoration of Community History |
| Newark Museum | Newark | Essex | Gateway Region | Multiple | A 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 | Morris | Skylands Region | Firefighting | website, part of the New Jersey Firemen's Home, exhibits include steamers, ornate hose carts and fire trucks |
| New Jersey Historical Society | Newark | Essex | Gateway Region | History | Museum collections include costumes, furniture, paintings, prints, ceramics, glass, tools and more, also houses library and archives |
| New Jersey Maritime Museum | Beach Haven | Ocean | Shore Region | Maritime | website |
| New Jersey Museum of Boating | Point Pleasant | Ocean | Shore Region | Maritime | website |
| New Jersey Museum of Transportation | Wall | Monmouth | Shore Region | Railroad | Located in Allaire State Park, heritage narrow gauge railway and displays |
| New Jersey Naval Museum | Hackensack | Bergen | Gateway Region | Maritime | Home of USS Ling (SS-297), a World War II submarine |
| New Jersey State House | Trenton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | State capitol | |
| New Jersey State Museum | Trenton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Multiple | Archaeology/ethnology, cultural history, fine art and natural history |
| New Jersey State Police Museum and Learning Center | West Trenton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Law enforcement | website |
| New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial | Holmdel | Monmouth | Shore Region | Military | Museum, memorial and education center |
| New Sweden Farmstead Museum | Bridgeton | Cumberland | South Jersey | Open air | Reproduction of a 17th-century farmstead of the type built by early Swedish Finnish colonists |
| Newton Fire Museum | Newton | Sussex | Skylands Region | Firefighting | website |
| Northfield Museum and Casto House | Northfield | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | Located in Birch Grove Park |
| Northlandz | Flemington | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Multiple | Miniature 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 | Atlantic | South Jersey | Art | website, part of Stockton University, contemporary and historic art |
| Nutley Museum | Nutley | Essex | Gateway Region | Local history | Operated by the Nutley Historical Society, includes Annie Oakley memorabilia, general store, toys and local history artifacts |
| Ocean City Arts Center | Ocean City | Cape May | South Jersey | Art | website, monthly art exhibits |
| Ocean City Historical Museum | Ocean City | Cape May | South Jersey | Local history | website, located in Ocean City's Community and Cultural Center |
| Ocean County Museum | Toms River | Ocean | Shore Region | Historic house | website, operated by the Ocean County Historical Society, Victorian period Pierson–Sculthorp House with period rooms, exhibits on local history |
| Ocean Gate Museum | Ocean Gate | Ocean | Shore Region | Railroad | website, historic railroad station with railroad and local history displays |
| Old Ardena Schoolhouse | Howell | Monmouth | Shore Region | School | website, operated by the Howell Historical Society |
| Old Barracks Museum | Trenton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | History | American colonial life and the American Revolution |
| Old Dutch Parsonage | Somerville | Somerset | Skylands Region | Historic house | Adjacent to the Wallace House, 18th-century parsonage |
| Old Millstone Forge Museum | Millstone | Somerset | Skylands Region | Mill | website, restored blacksmith shop with demonstrations |
| Old Monroe School House | Hardyston Township | Sussex | Skylands Region | School | One room schoolhouse used from 1819 to 1926, operated by the Hardyston Heritage Society |
| Old Schoolhouse and Firehouse Museum | Ogdensburg | Sussex | Skylands Region | School | website, open by appointment by the Ogdensburg Historical Society |
| Olde Stone House Historic Village | Washington Township | Gloucester | Delaware River Region | Open air | Operated by the Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission |
| Pascack Historical Society Museum | Park Ridge | Bergen | Gateway Region | Local history | website |
| Paterson Museum | Paterson | Passaic | Gateway Region | Local history | Cultural, industrial, technological, and geological history of Paterson; home of Fenian Ram submarine |
| Paul Robeson Galleries | Newark | Essex | Gateway Region | Art | website Archived 2011-08-05 at the Wayback Machine, part of Rutgers University |
| Paulsdale | Mount Laurel | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Biographical | Home of suffragette Alice Paul |
| Peachfield | Westampton Township | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Historic house | 18th-century house open for events by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America |
| Pennsville Township Historical Society Museum | Pennsville Township | Salem | Delaware River Region | Local history | website, also known as the Church Landing Farm Museum |
| Pequannock Museum | Pompton Plains | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | Located in a historic railroad station |
| Perkins Center for the Arts | Collingswood | Camden | Delaware River Region | Art | Visual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program |
| Perkins Center for the Arts | Moorestown | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Art | Visual and performing arts classes and lessons, exhibitions, music and dance performances, workshops, visiting artists' residencies and an outreach program |
| Perth Amboy Ferry Slip | Perth Amboy | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Maritime | |
| Peter Mott House | Lawnside | Camden | Delaware River Region | History | website, operated by the Lawnside Historical Society; station house along the Underground Railroad |
| Phillipsburg Railroad Historians Museum | Phillipsburg | Warren | Skylands Region | Railroad | website |
| Point Pleasant Historical Society Museum | Point Pleasant | Ocean | Shore Region | Local history | website |
| Pomona Hall | Camden | Camden | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Operated by the Camden County Historical Society, 18th-century period decorated mansion |
| Poricy Park | Middletown | Monmouth | Shore Region | Multiple | Includes 18th-century Murray Farmhouse and barn open for events and a nature center with fossils and natural history displays |
| Port Mercer Canal House | Lawrenceville | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | Operated 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 | Prallsville | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Open air | Includes an 1877 grist mill, a 1790 linseed oil mill, an 1850 saw mill and a 1900 grain silo |
| Princeton University Art Museum | Princeton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Art | Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, United States, and Latin America |
| Printmaking Council of New Jersey | Somerville | Somerset | Skylands Region | Art | Classes, workshops and gallery with changing exhibits of prints |
| Proprietary House | Perth Amboy | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Historic house | Commissioned by the Proprietors of East Jersey to be the official residence of the Royal Governor William Franklin |
| Prospertown Schoolhouse Museum | Jackson | Ocean | Shore Region | School | Open by appointment |
| Ralston General Store | Ralston | Morris | Skylands Region | Historic store | website, operated by the Ralston Historical Association, 1785 general store and post office |
| Randolph Museum | Randolph | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | website, operated by the Historical Society of Old Randolph |
| Readington Township Museums | Readington Township | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Multiple | website, includes Bouman-Stickney Farmstead, Eversole-Hall House, Cold Brook School, and Taylor's Mill. |
| Red Bank Battlefield Park | National Park | Gloucester | Delaware River Region | Historic house | James and Ann Whitall House, 18th-century plantation house and battlefield site during the American Revolutionary War |
| Red Brick Schoolhouse Museum | Chatham Township | Morris | Skylands | Local history | website, operated by the Chatham Township Historical Society |
| Red Mill Museum Village | Clinton | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Open air | Historic grist mill and former quarry village, exhibits of area industry, agriculture and domestic history |
| Richard Meier Model Museum | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | Architecture | Exhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by Richard Meier, located in Mana Contemporary |
| Dixon Mills | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | Architecture | Exhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by Richard Meier, located in Mana Contemporary |
| Ridgewood Schoolhouse Museum | Ridgewood | Bergen | Gateway Region | Local history | website, operated by the Ridgewood Historical Society |
| Ringwood Manor | Ringwood | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic house | Located in Ringwood State Park, 19th- and 20th-century great estate mansion |
| Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum | Atlantic City | Atlantic | South Jersey | Odditorium | |
| Risley Homestead | Northfield | Atlantic | South Jersey | Historic house | website, 1790 cottage, operated by the Atlantic County Historical Society |
| Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts | Millville | Cumberland | South Jersey | Art | website, community nonprofit arts center with four gallery spaces |
| Rockingham | Kingston | Somerset | Skylands Region | Living | Also known as Judge John Berrien Mansion, preserved and interpreted as the headquarters of George Washington in 1783 |
| Roebling Museum | Roebling | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Industry | website, located at former John A. Roebling's Sons Company steel mill |
| Rosenkrans Museum | Walpack Township | Sussex | Skylands Region | Local history | website, operated by the Walpack Historical Society |
| Roundhouse Museum | Egg Harbor City | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | website, operated by the Egg Harbor City Historical Society |
| Rutgers University Geology Museum | New Brunswick | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Natural history | Exhibits on geology and anthropology, with an emphasis on the natural history of New Jersey |
| Rutherfurd Hall | Allamuchy Township | Warren | Skylands Region | Historic house | 20th-century mansion, also community culture center |
| Salem County Historical Society | Salem | Salem | Delaware River Region | Historic 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 | Woodbine | Cape May | South Jersey | Local history | Area Russian Jewish immigrants, local history and culture |
| Samuel Fleming House | Flemington | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Historic house | 1756 house with history programs, also known as Fleming Castle |
| Scansen173 | Princeton Junction | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Art | website, 112 abstract and surreal sculptures, installations, assemblages, pond, bridge, wellness trails,300 elderly trees, and a Zen garden, |
| Schoolhouse Museum | Ridgewood | Bergen | Gateway Region | Local 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 | Wayne | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1695 colonial house |
| Schuyler-Hamilton House | Morristown | Morris | Skylands Region | Historic 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 | Cumberland | South Jersey | Local 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 Girt | Monmouth | Shore Region | Maritime | Tours of the lighthouse and keeper's house |
| Sea Isle City Historical Museum | Sea Isle City | Cape May | South Jersey | Local history | website, located in the Sea Isle City branch of the Cape May County Library |
| Shippen Manor Museum | Oxford | Warren | Skylands Region | Historic house | Operated by the Warren County Cultural & Heritage Commission, restored 18th-century stone mansion |
| Skylands Manor | Ringwood | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic house | Located 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. |
| Silas Riggs House | Ledgewood | Morris | Skylands Region | Historic house | website, 18th-century period house, operated by the Roxbury Township Historical Society |
| Silverball Museum | Asbury Park | Monmouth | Shore Region | Amusement | website, pinball museum and arcade |
| Smith–Cadbury Mansion | Moorestown | Burlington | Delaware River Region | Historic house | website, Operated by the Historical Society of Moorestown |
| Snowmobile Barn Museum | Fredon | Sussex | Skylands Region | Transportation | website, collection of over 300 sleds along with toys, ornaments, jewelry, advertisements |
| Solitude Heritage Museum | Union | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | Multiple | 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 | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | website, operated by the Somers Point Historical Society |
| Somerville Fire Department Museum | Somerville | Somerset | Skylands Region | Firefighting | Old fire engines and memorabilia |
| South Jersey Museum | Glassboro | Gloucester | Delaware River Region | History | 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 | Sussex | Skylands Region | Multiple | Zoo 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 | Monmouth | Shore Region | Local history | website |
| Stafford Township Heritage Park | Stafford Township | Ocean | Shore Region | Open 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 | Jersey City | Hudson | Gateway Region | History | Accessible 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 | Monmouth | Shore Region | Local history | website, operated by the Keyport Historical Society, exhibits include plantation century, docks and shipping, steamboat building, oyster industry and other local companies |
| Stedman Gallery | Camden | Camden | Delaware River Region | Art | website, part of the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts at Rutgers–Camden |
| Sterling Hill Mining Museum | Ogdensburg | Sussex | Skylands Region | Geology | Underground zinc mine and Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence |
| Stephen Crane House | Asbury Park | Monmouth | Shore Region | Biographical | website, home of author Stephen Crane |
| Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms | Parsipanny | Morris | Skylands Region | Historic house | Craftsman-style home of Gustav Stickley |
| Stillwater Historical Museum | Stillwater | Sussex | Skylands Region | Local history | website, located in an old school house, operated by the Historical Society of Stillwater Township |
| Stone Harbor Museum | Stone Harbor | Cape May | South Jersey | Local history | website, open seasonally |
| Stone Museum | Monroe Township | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Geology | website, minerals, fossils, tools, fluorescent minerals room |
| Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum (SSAAM) | Skillman, New Jersey | Somerset | Skylands Region | African American | website, located in a historic AME church, state and local African American history and culture |
| Sussex County Art & Heritage Council Gallery | Newton | Sussex | Skylands Region | Art | website |
| Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum | Menlo Park | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Technology | Also known as Menlo Park Museum, showcases many of the inventions of Thomas Edison |
| Thomas Edison National Historical Park | West Orange | Essex | Gateway Region | Technology, historic house | 29 room Queen Ann-style mansion home of Thomas Edison and laboratory |
| Thomas Warne Museum | Old Bridge Township | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Local history | website Run by the Madison–Old Bridge Township Historical Society |
| Toms River Maritime Museum | Toms River | Ocean | Shore Region | Maritime | website, operated by the Toms River Seaport Society |
| Township of Hamilton Historical Society Museum | Mays Landing | Atlantic | South Jersey | Local history | website |
| Township of Lebanon Museum at New Hampton | New Hampton | Hunterdon | Skylands Region | School | website, 19th-century period schoolhouse |
| Township of Ocean Historical Museum | Oakhurst | Monmouth | Shore Region | Local history | website |
| Trailside Nature & Science Center | Mountainside | Union | Gateway Region | Natural history | Museum exhibits include mammals and birds of the Watchung Reservation, taxidermy and fluorescent minerals |
| Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie | Trenton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Multiple | Located in the Ellarslie Mansion in Cadwalader Park, includes contemporary art, decorative arts, industrial memorabilia and area historical objects |
| Tuckerton Seaport | Tuckerton | Ocean | Shore Region | Maritime | Working 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 | Far Hills | Somerset | Skylands Region | Sports | Golf memorabilia and artifacts |
| Updike Farmstead | Princeton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Farm | website, operated by the Historical Society of Princeton |
| Van Harlingen Historical Society Farm Museum | Montgomery | Somerset | Skylands Region | Agriculture | |
| Van Liew-Suydam House | Somerset | Somerset | Skylands Region | Historic house | 19th-century Victorian farmhouse, open for events, operated by the Meadows Foundation |
| Van Nest-Hoff-Vannatta Farmstead | Harmony Township | Warren | Skylands Region | Historic house | Operated by the Harmony Township Historical Society, historic farmstead buildings dating to the 18th century |
| Van Riper-Hopper Historic House Museum | Wayne | Passaic | Gateway Region | Historic house | Operated by the Wayne Township Parks and Recreation Department, 1876 Dutch colonial house, also location of Van Duyne House |
| Van Bunschooten Museum | Wantage | Sussex | Skylands Region | Historic house | Operated 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 Region | Local history | website |
| Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center | Holmdel | Monmouth | Shore Region | History | History of the Vietnam war |
| Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society Museum | Vineland | Cumberland | South Jersey | History | website, collections focus on 19th- and 20th-century regional history |
| Visual Arts Center of New Jersey | Summit | Union | Gateway Region | Art | website, includes 3 galleries and a sculpture park |
| Walker-Combs-Hartshorne Farmstead (Oakley Farm Museum) | Freehold Township | Monmouth | Shore Region | Historic house and community garden | website, Headquarters for the Freehold Township Heritage Society. It is the oldest farmstead in the state. |
| Wallace House | Somerville | Somerset | Skylands Region | Historic 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 | Essex | Gateway Region | Art | website, part of Seton Hall University |
| Walt Whitman House | Camden | Camden | Delaware River Region | Biographical | Home of poet Walt Whitman |
| Warren County Historical Society Museum | Belvidere | Warren | Skylands Region | Local history | website, period rooms, Warren County memorabilia, antiques, textiles and folk art |
| Washington Crossing State Park | Hopewell | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Multiple | Includes 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 | Long Valley | Morris | Skylands Region | Local history | website |
| Waterloo Village | Stanhope | Sussex | Skylands Region | Transportation | 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 | Passaic | Gateway Region | Local history | website |
| Weston Museum | Newark | Essex | Gateway Region | Science | Contains items developed and manufactured by inventor Edward Weston |
| Westwood Museum | Westwood | Bergen | Gateway Region | Local history | website, operated by the Westwood Heritage Society; located in the Westwood Train Station |
| The Wetlands Institute | Stone Harbor | Cape May | South Jersey | Natural history | Birds, animals and ecosystem of the surrounding wetlands |
| WheatonArts | Millville | Cumberland | South Jersey | Art | Houses Museum of Glass |
| Whippany Railway Museum | Whippany | Morris | Skylands Region | Transportation - Railroad | Railroad cars and memorabilia |
| Wicoff House Museum | Plainsboro | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Local history | website |
| William Trent House | Trenton | Mercer | Delaware River Region | Historic house | 1719 house built for founder of Trenton, has served several times as the Governor's House |
| Woodruff Museum of Indian Artifacts | Bridgeton | Cumberland | South Jersey | Native American | website, over 20,000 artifacts related to the Lenni-Lenape Tribe, located in the Bridgeton Free Public Library |
| Wortendyke Barn Museum | Park Ridge | Bergen | Gateway Region | Agriculture | Old-world Dutch barn and farm exhibits |
| Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center | Little Falls | Passaic | Gateway Region | Sports | Permanent and rotating exhibits about baseball, Yankee history, and Yogi Berra, located on the campus of Montclair State University |
| Zimmerli Art Museum | New Brunswick | Middlesex | Gateway Region | Art | Part of Rutgers University, strengths in Russian and Soviet art, French 19th-century and American 19th- and 20th-century art, contemporary prints |

## Defunct museums

* Army Communications, Radar, and Electronics Museum, Fort Monmouth, closed in 2010, collections moved to the United States Army Ordnance Museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland
* Asbury Park Rock 'N Roll Museum, Asbury Park, closed in 2004
* Charles and Anna Hankins Museum, Lavallette, building sold in 2008 and displays moved to Toms River Seaport Society Maritime Museum
* Community Children's Museum, Dover, closed in 2012
* Flemington Children's Choir School, Flemington
* Johnston Historical Museum, North Brunswick, closed in 1979
* Metz Bicycle Museum, Freehold, website, closed in 2013
* Museum of Natural History at Princeton University, Guyot Hall, Princeton, closed in 2000
* New Jersey Museum of Agriculture, North Brunswick, closed in 2011
* North Pemberton Railroad Station Museum, Pemberton
* Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Branch
* Solitude House Museum (High Bridge)
* South Jersey Railroad Museum, Tuckahoe
* United States Bicycling Hall of Fame, Bridgewater, moved to California in 2010
* Waterhouse Museum, Toms River
* Wonder Museum, East Windsor