free museums in middlesex county nj

Free Museums in Middlesex County NJ

Free Museums in Middlesex County NJ
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Looking for a budget-friendly day out in Middlesex County NJ? Free Middlesex County museums where you can explore art, local history, nature, and more are a great destination! Learn more here…

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Free Museums in Middlesex County NJ

The Middlesex County Museum
at the Cornelius Low House

1225 River Road
Piscataway, NJ

The Cornelius Low House is one of only two surviving structures from the 18th century Colonial port community of Raritan Landing. The house was built in 1741 as the home of a wealthy merchant of Dutch ancestry and now houses the Middlesex County Museum which presents rotating exhibits about local and New Jersey history.

Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation

300 Somerset Street
New Brunswick, NJ

The Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation collections capture the flavor of Hungarian immigrant life with a fine art, folk art and folk life focus.

Rutgers Geology Museum

85 Somerset Street
New Brunswick, NJ

The Rutgers Geology Museum, is one of the oldest collegiate geology collections in the United States. Founded in 1872, its exhibits showcase the natural history of New Jersey, focusing on geology, anthropology, and paleontology.

The Stone Museum

608 Spotswood-Englishtown Road
Monroe Township, NJ

The Stone Museum is a museum of minerals and fossils with a host of “hands on” indoor and outdoor displays that allow visitors to touch specimens from 80 countries. One of the most popular exhibits is the Fluorescent Room, where visitors witness a display of hundreds of rocks (most of them are from New Jersey) that glow in a vibrant array of colors. Recent acquisitions include a dinosaur egg from China as well as a leg bone from one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs—the African Spinosaurus.

Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University

71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ

The Zimmerli Art Museum is one of the largest and most distinguished university-based museums in the country. Its collection of 60,000 objects ranges from ancient to contemporary art and features particularly rich holdings in the areas of French art of the nineteenth century, Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art, and American and European works on paper, including prints, drawings, photographs, and rare books.

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