Best places: History museums in Scotch Plains

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Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
History museum
Artifacts & passenger records tell the story of US immigration in a former processing station.
4.70 (5.3K reviews) (~29.95 km from centre)
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Thomas Edison National Historical Park
History museum
Home & laboratory of American inventor & manufacturer features historical artifacts & archives.
4.70 (1.3K reviews) (~19.4 km from centre)
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Statue of Liberty Museum
History museum
Sprawling space for multimedia exhibits & historic artifacts, including the statue's original torch.
4.70 (456 reviews) (~29.26 km from centre)
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East Jersey Old Town Village
History museum
Restored & replica buildings from the 1700s-1800s, with period artifacts & educational programs.
4.70 (280 reviews) (~17.41 km from centre)
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Fosterfields Living Historical Farm
History museum
Visitors can explore this working farm, which uses turn-of-the-century tools & techniques.
4.80 (196 reviews) (~19.02 km from centre)
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Historic Richmond Town
Historical place museum
100-acre site exploring the diversity of the American experience, from colonial days to the present.
4.50 (855 reviews) (~22.66 km from centre)
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Edison Memorial Tower Corporation
Museum
Museum dedicated to Edison's creative exploits while in Menlo Park & an Art Deco memorial tower.
4.50 (650 reviews) (~11.07 km from centre)
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Whippany Railway Museum
Rail museum
Exhibits celebrating railway history, plus old locomotives on display & seasonal train rides.
4.40 (290 reviews) (~18.76 km from centre)
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Morris County Historical Society
Museum
1853 house museum with period furnishings, historic exhibits & links to the suffrage movement.
4.80 (90 reviews) (~16.8 km from centre)
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Garibaldi Meucci Museum
History museum
Old home of inventor Antonio Meucci & Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi turned museum with artifacts.
4.30 (57 reviews) (~27.06 km from centre)
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Cornelius Low House
History museum
2 floors of local history exhibits are on display in this fine former home of a Dutch merchant.
4.50 (39 reviews) (~17.02 km from centre)
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Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites
State park
👍👍 I didn't get to enter the house, but they had a re-enactment and life story accounting of Phillis Wheatley which was pretty good. If history was taught like this, it would have caught my attention more in school. Parking lot is limited but street parking shouldn't be a problem.
4.30 (44 reviews) (~21.8 km from centre)
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