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NJ RAINY DAY ACTIVITIES

Things to do on a rainy day in NJ! 

New Jersey Weather



THE RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT MUSEUM!
1444 Boardwalk Atlantic City NJ (609) 347-2001

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 (Northern NJ) 973-331-9001

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
Westfield New Jersey (Northern NJ) 908-232-3411 (908-BEAD-411)

Make your own Jewelry in NJ on a rainy day
A great way to spend a rainy day! Use your creativity to design jewelry from our wide selection of beads. A great activity for both kids and adults! You bring your imagination and we provide the beads and expertise to help you create your jewelry. We professionally finish your jewelry for you. 

Jewlery making Classes in Northern NJ!
Classes are available to learn these techniques and more! Check our website for class schedule, birthday party and ladies night out information.


 

NJ ADVENTURE AQUARIUM 
1 Riverside Drive Camden NJ 856-365-3300
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.




BRUSHES & BISQUE   Make your own ceramics
45 Broadway Denville NJ 973-627-6292

Brushes and Bisque is a place where families can spend quality time together, friends can casually gather, couples find romance, and people can just come to relax on a rainy day. Brushes and Bisque is a Contemporary Ceramics studio. They have at least 200 pieces of bisque, or unfinished ceramics, in all shapes and sizes. You can make a mug, your own dinner plate, a jewelry box, figurine and just about anything else you can imagine for yourself, your home or a special occasion! A really cool way to spend time on a rainy day Kids love it too! Special $15 per person -includes lunch plus 1 1/2 hours of studio time!

 




THE MAD POTTER A Paint Your Own Pottery Studio
119-131 Route 22 East Green Brook 732-424-0411



SURFLIGHT THEATRE
Engleside and Beach Avenues PO Box 1155 Beach Haven, NJ 08008 609-492-9477

Founded in 1950, The Joseph P. Hayes Surflight Theatre is a nonprofit professional live theatre dedicated to providing the vacationers and residents of Long Beach Island and Southern New Jersey with first quality live musical theatre and plays while serving as a training ground for young theatre artists and technicians.  In 2006 the Surflight season includes many great shows such as 'Grease', and 'Miss Saigon', as well as performances specially for children such as 'Snow White' and 'Cinderella'.  Please see our website for more information: www.surflight.org




THE WETLANDS INSTITUTE
1075 Stone Harbor Blvd. Stone Harbor NJ (609) 368-1211

The Wetlands institute overlooks 6,000 acres of coastal wetlands. The wetlands are a bird-watcher's paradise. You can spend the day  here exploring many educational exhibits. They have a gift shop and an aquarium. Walk the nature trails or check out the observation tower. Relax on a marsh walk or in a Kayak in the summer.



THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NJ
Madison NJ

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison NJ puts on many wonderful Plays throughout the season. Come celebrate a true Shakespeare performance! Please visit the following link for their upcoming events calandar. http://www.njshakespeare.org/season/season.html




UNITED ASTRONOMY CLUB OF NEW JERSEY OBSERVATORY
Jenny Jump State forest Near Hope NJ

UACNJ offers sky observation programs to the public at observatory located on Jenny Jump Mountain in Jenny Jump State Forest. They promote member club activities and host a dark sky observing site at Jenny Jump State Forest near Hope, NJ. Astronomy programs are available to the public every Saturday evening from April through October. A small on-site museum is maintained celebrating the History of Astronomy in New Jersey.

 

 New Jersey Movie Theater Times

 Find a movie - What time it's playing 
and where it's playing QUICKLY - You can buy tickets too!

Movie Theater Times


      

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
Stedman Gallery Camden
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
Meadowlands Museum Rutherford
New Jersey Naval Museum Hackensack
Kearny Museum Kearny
Yogi Berra Museum Montclair
Franklin Mineral Museum Franklin
Lambert Castle Museum Patterson
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

 The links below will bring you to their events Calendar 


 

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

Continental Airlines Arena
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 / 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
Hamilton House Clifton
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 Jersey Gardens I Livingston Mall I Garden State Plaza I Harmon Cove Outlet Center I Jackson Outlet Village I Liberty Village 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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