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Things to do on a rainy day in NJ! 


Liberty Science Center
Located in Northern New Jersey
222 Jersey City Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 201-200-1000

With hundreds of hands-on learning experiences, Liberty Science Center’s nine permanent exhibitions showcase science and technology, as they really exist, embedded into the facets of our lives. Guests can challenge themselves at the Rock Climbing Wall, walk 18 feet above the exhibition floor across a narrow beam and even practice some foreign vocabulary in Language Karaoke. Guests ages 2-5 will especially enjoy "I Explore", a gallery created just for them! With Live Science Demonstrations, a traveling exhibition gallery, a 3D theater and the nation’s largest IMAX® Dome Theater – there is always something new to experience at Liberty Science Center.

For more information, please call 201-200-1000 or visit their website at http://www.lsc.org/ 



The Ripley's Believe it or not Museum!
1444 Boardwalk Atlantic City NJ (609) 347-2001
Southern NJ

Ripley's Believe it or not Museum Atlantic City NJ See special exhibits that are so unique and unbelievable that you really have to see them to believe them! See a host of the most amazing artifacts ever assembled under one roof. Open every day of the year. A great attraction to bring the kids to on a rainy day in NJ.




Kid·netic
Montville NJ - 973-331-9001
Northern NJ

Indoor Playground is perfect for a rainy day!
Come to open play & stay as long as you want in our indoor play space. Our playground features a ball room, island hopping pit, alligator pit, helicopter, tunnels, bridges & slides. Our floor is filled with mats of all shapes & sizes and there’s a fun rock climbing wall designed for kids 3 to 10 years. Stay for lunch and order from our café featuring food for kids & adults.  We have enrichment classes too! 
 




Just Bead Yourself
113 Central Ave, Westfield, NJ
908-232-3411 (908-BEAD-411)
Northern NJ


Make your own Jewelry in NJ on a rainy day
Rain or shine, Just Bead Yourself is a great place for family fun! Use your creativity to design jewelry from our wide selection of beads. Kids and adults are welcome to bring your imagination, and we’ll provide the beads and expertise to help you create your jewelry. You do the design and stringing, and we will professionally finish your jewelry for you. Call 908-BEAD411 (232-3411) or check our website for our walk-in hours. We offer jewelry classes, kids’ parties and ladies’ night out, too! 



NJ Adventure Aquarium 
1 Riverside Drive Camden NJ 856-365-3300
Southern NJ
Adventure Aquarium Camden NJ Meet Liberty the penguin, their newest addition to the family! Come experience Sharks, stingrays, sea turtles, seals, birds and much more. Learn about interesting animals and their exciting habitats found in all of their exciting exhibits.





Kid Junction
The Best Play place in NJ
Kid Junction, with 2 convenient locations in Central and Southern New Jersey, is an Award Winning parent-supervised Children's Entertainment Center/Play Place/Family Fun Center, designed to foster learning, emotional confidence and social interaction all through the guise of fun & play.  Home of New Jersey's most spectacular Birthday Parties and DAILY OPEN PLAY, Kid Junction is the very best place for your child's next Birthday Party, play date, educational field trip or just walk in for fun!  You MUST check us out at www.kidjunction.com or call (908) 252-0055 to see why we have been voted the Best-of-the-Best 2 years running!

2 locations - Both are availabe for Birthday parties or Walk in Open Play!

Kid Junction of Mount Laurel NJ 856-273-9500
Kid Junction of Branchburg NJ - 908-252-0055



      

RAINY DAY ATTRACTIONS IN NJ

NJ ART MUSEUMS


NORTH JERSEY


Newark Museum  Newark
Jersey City Museum Jersey City
Morris Museum Morristown
Montclair Art Museum Montclair
Belskie Museum of Art & Science Closter
Hunterdon Museum of Art Clinton
The Bergen Museum of Arts and science Paramus
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum Oradell
Peters Valley Craft Education Center Layton
African Art Museum Tenafly
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts Summit

 

CENTRAL JERSEY



Princeton Art Museum Princeton FREE!
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum New Brunswick
Ellarslie Trenton



SOUTH JERSEY


Noyes Museum of Art Oceanville
Atlantic City Art Center  Atlantic City FREE!
Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center Camden



 

NJ ART GALLERIES

 

Anchor & Palette Gallery Bayhead
Donald Voorhees Gallery Atlantic Highlands
Gull studios 
Bay Head
Oceanside Gallery Belmar
Zephyr Gallery Princeton
Ludlow Thorston Online
Louisa Melrose Gallery Frenchtown
Hopkins House Gallery Haddon Township
Walsh Library Gallery 
South Orange


 

NJ MUSEUMS

 

NORTH JERSEY


Aviation Hall of Fame Teterboro
Fort Lee Museum - Judge Moore House Fort Lee Free Attraction!
Fort Lee Historic Park and Visitors Center Fort Lee
The Hermitage Historic House & Museum Ho-Ho-kus
New Jersey Children's Museum Paramus

Thomas Edison Museum West Orange
Thomas Edison Memorial Tower and Museum Edison
Sterling Hill Mining Museum Ogdensburg
Hoboken Historical Museum Hoboken
Liberty Hall Museum Union
Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum Landing
New Jersey Naval Museum Hackensack
Kearny Museum Kearny
Yogi Berra Museum Montclair
Franklin Mineral Museum Franklin
Lambert Castle Museum Paterson
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts Madison
Snowmobile Barn Museum Fredon
Whippany Railway Museum Whippany
The Morris Museum Morristown
The Stickley Museum (Craftman Farms) Parsippany

 

CENTRAL JERSEY


New Jersey Museum of Agriculture North Brunswick
Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum Rahway
New Jersey State Police Museum West Trenton
New Jersey State Museum Trenton
State Museum Trenton
Old Barracks Trenton

Displayworld Stone museum Monroe Township
Grounds for Sculpture Hamilton
Trailside Nature Center Mountainside
Northlandz doll and train museum Flemington
Historic Allaire Village Farmingdale
Historic Morven Museums and Garden Princeton
See our 4  review of Historic Morven

 

SOUTH JERSEY


Red Mill Museum Village Clinton
Battleship New Jersey Historical Museum Society  Camden
Atlantic City Historical Museum  Atlantic City  FREE!
Doo Wop Preservation League Museum Wildwood
American Indian Hertitage Museum Rancocas
Air Victory Museum Lumberton
Prison Museum Mount Holly
Garden State Discovery Museum Cherry Hill
Indian King Tavern House Museum Haddonfield
Heritage Glass Museum Glassboro
Vietnam Era Educational Center Holmdel
Perkins Center Moorestown
Appel Farm & Music Center Elmer
Museum of American Glass Millville
US Bicycle Hall of Fame Somerville

 

NJ PLAYS AND THEATRE


 See NJ Play and Theatre information Here!



NJ CONCERT HALLS 

Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
1 Harbour Blvd Camden NJ  609-365-1300

Madison Square Garden
7th avenue, between 31st and 33rd streets NY, 212-465-6741

Meadowlands Izod Center
50 Rt 120 E Rutherford NJ, 201-935-3900

Strand Theatre
400 Clifton Ave. Lakewood, NJ 732-367-7789

Sovereign bank arena
550 S. Broad St. Trenton NJ  609-656-3222

Asbury Park Convention Hall- Paramount Theatre
1306 Ocean Ave. Asbury Park NJ 732-502-4581

Count Basie Theatre
99 Monmouth St Red Bank, NJ  732-842-9000

State Theatre
15 Livingston Ave. New Brunswick NJ  732-246-SHOW

Giants Stadium
50 Rt. 120 E. Rutherford NJ  201-935-3900

Bergen Performing Arts Center
30 N. Van Brunt St. Englewood NJ  201-567-5791

McCarter Theatre Online
91 University Pl. Princeton NJ, 609-683-8000

Morristown Community Theatre
100 South St. Morristown NJ, 973-539-0345

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
1 Center St. Newark NJ, 973-648-8989

Paramount Theatre
Ocean Avenue Asbury Park NJ , 732-502-4581 / 732-502-5703

PNC Bank Arts Center
Garden State Parkway Holmdel NJ, 732-335-0400

Uncle Joe's Bar (No Website)
154 1st Street at Marin Blvd, Jersey City NJ, 201-659-6999

The Atlantic City Convention Center
2301 Boardwalk Ave. Atlantic City, NJ, 609-348-7000

Caesars Atlantic City Circus Maximum Theatre
2100 Pacific Ave. Atlantic City, NJ, 800-677-7469

Atlantic City Hilton Grand Theatre and Dizzy Dolphin
Boardwalk & Boston Atlantic City NJ 609-340-7200

Bally's Park Place - Mountain Bar
Boardwalk & Park Place Atlantic City NJ 609-340-2709 / 1-800-772-7777

Resorts Atlantic City
1133 Boardwalk & North Carolina, Atlantic City, NJ 888-771-1SUN

Showboat Casino
Boardwalk & Delaware, Atlantic City, NJ,  609-343-4003

Tropicana Casino
Boardwalk & Brighton, Atlantic City, NJ, 800-843-8767

Trump Marina
Huron Avenue & Brigantine Boulevard Atlantic City  NJ 800-284-8786

Trump Plaza
Boardwalk & Mississippi Avenue Atlantic City NJ  800-759-8786

Trump Taj Mahal
1000 Boardwalk & Virginia Avenue Atlantic City NJ 609-449-5150

 

NJ MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS 

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Haddonfield Symphony 
Garden State Philharmonic
Greater Trenton Symphony

   





MANSIONS CASTLES AND 
HISTORIC HOMES IN NEW JERSEY



Lambert Castle
3 Valley Rd Paterson NJ (201)-881-2761
Visit a real castle in Paterson NJ. The grounds are open every day to picnic on. Click above link for castle hours. Visit Paterson's Great Falls in the same day just a short drive away. A spectacular landmark right here in North Jersey.

Shippen Manor
8 Belvidere Ave Oxford NJ (908) 453-4381
This restored Georgian manor from around 1754 was built by Dr's. William and Joseph Shipper. It is furnished with 18th- and 19th-century period pieces.

Acorn Hall  
68 Morris Avenue  Morristown NJ 
(973) 267 3465
Acorn Hall is an 1853 Italianate Victorian mansion. There have been reports that it is
Haunted. Visits are by tour only and reservations must be made.

Somers Mansion  
1000 Shore Road Somers Point NJ (609) 927-2212
Somers Mansion was built about 1725 by Richard Somers
and is the oldest existing house in Atlantic County.

 

Washington's Headquarters (Ford Mansion) Morristown
Ringwood Manor Ringwood
Dey Mansion Wayne
Bainbridge House Princeton
Clarke house  Princeton
Steuben house River edge
Miller-Cory House Westfield
Israel Crane House Montclair
Smith-Cadbury Mansion Moorestown
Walt Whitman House Camden 
Pomona Hall Camden
Smithville Mansion Eastampton
Whitall House National Park Red Bank (Gloucester County)
Cornelius Low House Piscataway
Emlen Physick House Cape May
James Wilson Marshall House Lambertville
Long Beach Island Historical Museum Beach Haven
Capt. James Lawrence House Burlington
James Fenimore Cooper House Burlington
Nelson House Trenton
The Ferry House Trenton
William Trent House Trenton
Old Dutch Parsonage State House Somerville
Wallace House State Historic Site Somerville
Rockingham State Historic Site Rocky Hill
Seabrook Wilson House Port Monmouth


 

HISTORIC SITES AND MUSEUMS NJ

 

Judge Moore House - Fort Lee Museum Fort Lee   Free Attraction!
Fort Lee Historic park and visitors center Fort Lee 
The Hermitage Ho-Ho-kus

Middlebrook encampment 
Bound Brook
Edison Memorial Tower Edison
Grover Cleveland birthplace Museum Caldwell
Drake House Plainfield
Cathedral Basilica Newark
John Woolman Memorial Mount Holly
Garretson Forge and Farm Fair lawn
New Jersey State House Trenton
American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark Haledon
Haddonfield Historic Society Haddonfield
Burlington County Historical Society Burlington
Updike Farmstead Princeton
Historical Society of Princeton Princeton
Drumthwacket Princeton
Historic Morven Princeton
Rockingham Historic Site Princeton
Neldon-Roberts Stonehouse Montague
Beverly National Cemetery Beverly
Rankokus Reservation Rankokus
Kuser Farm Mansion and Park Hamilton
Camden County Historical Society Camden
Battleship New Jersey Museum Camden
Historic Cold Spring Village Cape May
Barclay Farmstead Museum Cherry hill
Indian King Tavern Haddonfield
Macculloch Hall Morristown
New Jersey Museum of Agriculture North Brunswick
Ringwood Manor Ringwood
The James Rose Center Ridgewood
Liberty Hall Union
Great Swamp Watershed Association Madison
Salem County Historical Society Museum & Library Salem
Cooper Mill Chester
Dr. William Robinson Plantation Clark
Boxwood Hall State Historic Site Elizabeth
Fosterfield Living Historical Farm Morristown
Botto House National Landmark Haledon
Wortendyke Barn Park Ridge
Historic Allaire Village Farmingdale
Village Inn Englishtown

 

 

 

NJ DANCE COMPANIES

 

New Jersey Ballet
American Repertory Ballet
Stylin' Steps
Nai Ni Chen Dance Company
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Algonquin ARTS

 

 



For a complete listing of upcoming cultural events visit
Jersey Arts.com

The Perkins center for the arts is a wonderful creativity camp for Children

Regional South Jersey Cultural Alliance, Atlantic City

Burlington County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs


 

 Burlington historical district

See over 40 great things in the including

 The Counties oldest residence           New Jersey’s oldest library
Underground Railroad sites            Oldest Episcopal Church


 





NJ MALLS

 

Bergen Mall I Bridgewater Commons I East Brunswick square mall I Freehold Raceway Mall I Garden State Plaza I Harmon Cove Outlet Center I Jackson Premium Outlets I Jersey Gardens I Jersey Shore Premium Outlets I Liberty Village I Livingston Mall I Mall at Mill Creek I The Mall at Short Hills I Menlo Park Mall I Monmouth Mall I Newort Centre Mall I Old Lafayette Village I Outlets at the cove I Paramus Park Mall I Phillipsburg Mall I Quakerbridge Mall I Riverside Square I Rockaway Townsquare I Seaview Square I Wayne Towne Center I Willowbrook Mall I Woodbridge Center I Woodbury Commons 




 

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