The Museum is closed Friday, April 3, for Good Friday and Sunday, April 5, for Easter.
March 31, Apr. 1, 2, 4, 7 鈥� 10, 1:00 鈥� 4:00 pm
Drop by the Imagination Studio for free hands-on activities. See the Calendar for daily activities.
April 4, 4:15 pm
Join us in the Planetarium for this free science talk with guest speaker Christian Kragh Jespersen, Princeton University. Reserve a seat:
April 11 & 16, 9:30 am
It鈥檚 spring 鈥� we鈥檙e reading and learning about birds nests! Details and registration at this link:
Available in-store and online at the Museum Shop.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, 鈥淕rant Castner: The Lost Archive.鈥�
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present the new exhibition 鈥淪pirit of 鈥�76: The Bicentennial鈥� as part of their celebration of America鈥檚 250th.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present an exclusive free screening of NASA鈥檚 new documentary, 鈥淧lanetary Defenders.鈥�
This summer, head to the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum for fun, free activities on weekdays, all summer long.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present the new exhibition 鈥淩ecent Acquisitions: Fine Art.鈥�
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present a new exhibition, 鈥淓cosystems at Risk: Threatened and Endangered in 吃瓜黑料,鈥� from April 19, 2025 鈥� March 15, 2026.
October is a busy month at the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum!
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present a new exhibition and accompanying publication featuring the work of an artist who spent the latter part of his life working in 吃瓜黑料.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum presents 鈥淪cience Under the Stars,鈥� a free monthly lecture series held on Saturdays in the Planetarium.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum presents 鈥淏ark! Indigenous Cultural Expressions,鈥� on view May 4, 2024 through January 5, 2025 in the Museum鈥檚 Riverside Gallery on the second floor.
The State Museum invites you to experience 吃瓜黑料 history through a recently discovered archive of photographic negatives once belonging to a prolific but long-forgotten local photographer.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present a new exhibition in the 吃瓜黑料 Artists Series, 鈥淐aroline Burton: Way Finding.鈥� The exhibition opens September 23 in the Riverside Gallery on the Museum鈥檚 second floor and will be on view through March 31, 2024.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the addition of two new shows to the Planetarium schedule: The Moon, for children through age 8, and 脕r贸ra, an award-winning film about the science and beauty of auroras for general audiences.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the start of new Spanish-language programming in the Planetarium.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum presents 鈥淗istory Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of a Capital City,鈥� a new exhibition focusing on the long history of human activity in Trenton, 吃瓜黑料 as told through the lens of archaeology. The exhibition opens June 3 in the Museum鈥檚 main floor gallery and will remain on view through December 31, 2023.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.鈥檚 Letter from Birmingham Jail, the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum will exhibit four prints by artist Ben Shahn that reflect ideas King put forth in his letter.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum presents 鈥淏eyond the Tangible,鈥� a new exhibition of 26 non-objective abstract works by 22 artists from the Fine Art collection. The exhibition opens February 11 in the Museum鈥檚 2nd floor gallery and features works created by American artists since the late 1930s. 鈥淏eyond the Tangible鈥� is on view through August 27, 2023.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum will present a series of seven in-gallery talks with artists featured in the 2022 吃瓜黑料 Arts Annual: Reemergence exhibition on select Wednesdays through the run of the show.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce that longtime volunteer Wayne Callahan was among the honorees at the 2022 Governor鈥檚 Jefferson Awards. Mr. Callahan was honored in the 鈥淪ervice Through STEM鈥� category for his volunteer work with the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum Natural History Bureau.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum (NJSM) is pleased to announce that the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum Foundation is the recipient of grant funding from the 吃瓜黑料 Council for the Humanities (NJCH) to support the a component of the exhibition "History Beneath Your Feet: Archaeology in the Capital City,鈥� which will explore the social, cultural and environmental evolution of Trenton through archaeological artifacts.
Sharks are one of the most feared animals throughout the world, even though the odds of ever encountering one are highly unlikely. 鈥淛aw Dropping World of Sharks,鈥� a new exhibition from the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum, aims to dispel some of the myths and misunderstandings about sharks and their relatives.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present 鈥淧osing Beauty in African American Culture,鈥� a touring exhibition opening January 29, 2022. The exhibition explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is open for visitors to discover exhibitions that preserve and share stories that inspire curiosity and creativity.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is excited to announce that it will reopen for public visitation in mid-July.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum鈥檚 annual Halloween event is going virtual this year.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum will present the Autumn Evenings Series, a new four-part program of live digital events starting October 8.
Even though the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum has been closed for the past four months due to the pandemic, the staff has been working from home to bring Museum experiences to the public.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the Nikon 鈥淪mall World鈥� exhibition, on view adjacent to the Planetarium lobby from March 15 through July 10.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce “Fine Feathered Friends: Birds as Mainstay and Muse,” a new exhibition opening on Saturday, January 4, 2020.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce 鈥淧reserving the Pinelands: Albert Horner鈥檚 Portraits of a National Treasure,鈥� a new exhibition opening Saturday, October 12.
Secretary of State Tahesha Way is pleased to announce that the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum has been granted reaccreditation by the American Alliance of Museums.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present the exhibition, Many Inspired Steps, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the opening of 鈥淛ersey Crocs Rule!鈥� on March 2.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the opening of the new exhibition 鈥淔oundation@50: Celebrating Five Decades of Support鈥� on September 22.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the opening of 鈥淥bjects Count: A Decade of Collecting at the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum鈥� on October 6.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the Nikon “Small World” exhibition is on view through July 15, 2018.
Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno today announced that 吃瓜黑料 State Museum Executive Director Anthony Gardner will leave state service to take on the role of Vice President of Community Engagement at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
The Trenton Downtown Association is having a festival to celebrate 吃瓜黑料鈥檚 350th birthday and the State Museum is joining in the birthday fun. NJ350: A Capital Celebration, a free, family-friendly festival is being held on June 22nd from 11:00am-5:00pm, rain or shine, at the Capitol Complex on West State Street, Trenton.
In keeping with the NJ 350th Anniversary themes of diversity and innovation, a varied slate of programs and exhibits will explore 吃瓜黑料 innovation and all things science at the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum鈥檚 Super Science Saturday on Saturday, May 3, 2014, 10am to 4pm.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the opening of 吃瓜黑料 on Display, an exciting new exhibition chronicling 吃瓜黑料鈥檚 involvement in seven world鈥檚 fairs held between 1876 and 1964.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum will once again participate in the Blue Star Museum program, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation鈥檚 active duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2014.
“As soon as those two halves came together, like puzzle pieces, you knew it,” said Ted Daeschler, PhD , associate curator of vertebrate zoology and vice president for collections at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is honored to present the exhibition, “Aljira at 30, Dream and Reality,” in the Museum's first floor East Gallery from March 29 through September 28, 2014.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to announce the return of Hadrosaurus foulkii to 吃瓜黑料 in the new exhibit Drawn To Dinosaurs: Hadrosaurus foulkii opening on Saturday, March 22 in the Museum鈥檚 Natural History Hall.
The 吃瓜黑料 State Museum is pleased to present the 吃瓜黑料 Artist Series exhibition, “Artists of Roosevelt,” in the Museum鈥檚 second floor Riverside Gallery from February 15 through May 25, 2014.
The Friends of the 吃瓜黑料 State Museum has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the PNC Foundation to teach area children lessons in spending, sharing and saving while providing parents with resources to reinforce the lessons at home.
