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November 2022

Enjoy an evening of music under the stars in the Museum Planetarium!

On Dec. 3 at 7:00 PM The Lotus Project presents "Consolation of Apollo." Tickets (free to reserve, donate what you can) & more info here:
https://www.thelotusprojectnj.org/events/consolation-of-apollo-1

August 2022

Last chance this summer for weekday Planetarium programs!

Last chance this summer for weekday Planetarium programs! Schedule available here:
https://nj.gov/state/museum/events-calendar.shtml

April 2022

4/26 is #NationalAudubonDay.

John James Audubon's "The Birds of America" contains 435 life-size hand colored etchings, some of them researched and drawn in NJ. The Museum has 7 original edition prints in our Fine Art collection; "Fish Hawk" was on view recently in the Fine Feathered Friends exhibition and is one of the birds Audubon painted while here. Learn more about Audubon's NJ connection in this video by Curator Nicholas Ciotola. https://youtu.be/EWoF1JQP0CM

April 2022

Want to see the calcumeter in action?

Watch this video by a noted collector of antique calculators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VilkjdXxTKk

February 2022

Some good news to share!

A review of the new exhibition, "Posing Beauty in African American Culture." https://www.nj.com/times/

January 2022

Insider’s guide to 19 essential museums just outside Philadelphia

We made the list! Very flattered to have been included in the Philly Inquirer's story about the best museums to visit outside of Philadelphia. One of the best values too (entry to the Museum is free!) https://www.inquirer.com/philly-tips/best-museums-near-philadelphia.html

November 2021

#FossilFriday!

The journal Animals just published a paper by our Natural History Registrar Rod Pelligrini, "Skeletochronology and Paleohistology of Hyposaurus rogersii (Crocodyliformes, Dyrosauridae) from the Early Paleogene of New Jersey, USA." Read it here: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/11/3067/htm#

October 2021

Yorktown Cup

October 2021

DIY Costumes you can make with a cardboard box!

August 21 2021

On this day Trenton sculptor Edward Marshall Boehm (1913-1969) was born

Learn more about Boehm here:
https://youtu.be/dgb3rkNDrt4

 

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