Heritage & Museums
RMN dispatches tagged Heritage & Museums.
Route 66 Turns 100: The Remaining Centennial Events Across America
Reported Feature
A coast-to-coast guide to the concerts, car celebrations, art shows, community festivals, history talks, races and holiday events still ahead.
The Raccoon Has a Brewery: The Story Behind Swedesboro Brewing’s South Jersey Brand
Reported Feature
From an old local place name to an IPA and multiple taprooms, Swedesboro Brewing has made the raccoon its calling card.
You Don’t Have to Remember a Place to Inherit Its Memory
Reported Feature
Middle-school filmmakers documented the nearly century-old Maplewood Theater at the exact moment one generation’s nostalgia is becoming another generation’s local history.
New Jersey Is Turning Its Movie History Into Tourist Attractions. Why Do Fans Want to Visit Fictional Places?
Reported Feature
A definitive visitor guide to the Garden State’s new official film trails — from Camp Crystal Lake and the Quick Stop to the mansion in Annie, the carnival site in Big and Atlantic City’s cinematic landmarks.
Lighthouse Challenge Day One Recap: The People Behind the Lights
Reported Event New Jersey
A windy start at Sandy Hook led to a full day of lighthouse visits, good conversations and a dozen stickers in the book.
Jacksonville & the First Coast
Reported Feature
The big events, fairs, cons, pop-ups, free activities and sensory-friendly experiences to know for late 2026 and 2027
Chestertown’s Dickens of a Christmas Returns Dec. 4-5 with a Victorian Weekend, 5K and a Downtown Full of Holiday Events
Event Downtown Chestertown · Chestertown, Maryland
The Eastern Shore festival turns historic Chestertown into a two-day holiday streetscape of bonfires, carriage rides, markets, family activities, live music, Victorian traditions and the annual Run Like the Dickens 5K.
Bagpipes, Caber Tosses and Whiskey: South Jersey Celtic Festival Returns for Two Days in Burlington County
Event Burlington County Fairgrounds · Columbus, New Jersey
The fifth annual festival brings Highland Games, Celtic music and dance, Gaelic lessons, Irish stick fighting, hurling, food and a full slate of family activities to the Burlington County Fairgrounds Oct. 10 and 11.
From Alebrijes to Ofrendas: New Jersey’s Cleverest Día de los Muertos Events for 2026
Reported Feature
Wildlife refuge crafts, a giant skeleton puppet parade, an oceanfront procession, a five-course Dinner of the Souls and even a Batman trunk-or-treat give the Garden State an unusually inventive Día de los Muertos calendar this fall.
AppleFest Brings Fall Traditions Back to Upper Township’s Gandy Farmstead
Event John Wesley Gandy Farmstead · Upper Township, New Jersey
The annual Historical Preservation Society gathering returns Oct. 10 with apples, pie, traditional crafts and a chance to spend a fall afternoon inside one of Cape May County’s preserved historic farmsteads.
Upper Township’s Past Stays Alive at Three Historic Sites
Reported Feature
The Historical Preservation Society of Upper Township keeps local history tangible through a farmstead, a one-room schoolhouse and a restored railroad station.
Burlington City’s 250th Folk Arts Festival Brings Living Traditions to the Riverfront
Event Burlington Riverfront Promenade · Burlington City, New Jersey
The free Oct. 10 celebration will fill Burlington’s waterfront with music, storytelling, crafts, foodways, street games and cultural traditions as the city closes out its Second Saturdays arts series.
Sometimes the Best Place to Tell History Is the Place That Remembers It
Event Hunterdon County Historic Courthouse · Flemington, New Jersey
A workshop of The Crossing brings Jacob Francis and the Ten Crucial Days back into the Hunterdon County courthouse where one part of his own Revolutionary War story was recorded.
America Turns 250. First We Have to Agree What America Is.
Event Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton's Re-Visioning America initiative treats the nation's semiquincentennial not simply as an occasion for ceremony, but as a prompt to examine the competing histories, identities and claims that have always been contained inside the American story.
We’re Not Just Buying the Perfume Anymore. We’re Buying the Memory Inside It.
Reported Feature
Anecdotes by Artists is putting the perfumer’s biography, memories and creative process at the center of the product. That says something bigger about what provenance has become in consumer culture.
What Changes When the Shelter Dog Gets a Portrait?
Event Atlantic Cape Art Gallery · Mays Landing, New Jersey
Atlantic Cape Community College is putting shelter and rescue animals on gallery walls. The interesting part is not simply that art might help an animal get adopted. It is what happens when an animal normally reduced to an adoption profile is presented instead as someone worth studying.
Color, Texture and Calm Fill Flemington DIY’s September Gallery
Event Flemington DIY · Flemington, New Jersey
The “Vibrant Art Show” brings together dot mandalas, painting, crochet and acrylic pouring at the Stangl Road community arts space through Sept. 26.
For One Minute, Times Square Stops Selling Something
Reported Event Somerset County, New Jersey
On the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, more than 30 Times Square displays paused their normal advertising for a coordinated moment of remembrance. In a place built to compete relentlessly for attention, the interruption carried its own meaning.
A Historic Farmstead Is Still Doing Its Job. It Just Changed Jobs.
Event Farmstead Arts · Basking Ridge, New Jersey
Farmstead Arts is heading into a fall stretch that moves from Revolutionary history to a member art show to community theater. The interesting part is not simply how much is on the calendar. It is what happens when preservation keeps a place in use instead of turning it into scenery.
Morven Sets the Table for a September Afternoon Tea Steeped in History
Event Morven Museum & Garden · Princeton, New Jersey
The Secret Tea Room returns to Princeton’s historic Morven Museum & Garden for four intimate seatings on September 24 and 25.
The Lighthouse Challenge Strat Guide
Event New Jersey
The most efficient two-day route for New Jersey's 2026 Lighthouse Challenge — plus the timing logic, risk controls, climb strategy and a full field dossier for all 15 physical stops and 16 Challenge sites.
The Lighthouse Challenge Turns New Jersey Into a Two-Day Maritime Road Trip
Event New Jersey
The annual October challenge sends participants from Sandy Hook to Cape May and up the Delaware side of the state, connecting lighthouses, lifesaving stations and museums into one long weekend of history, navigation and very deliberate route planning.
Before Springsteen Became an Icon, Monmouth Was Already in the Story
Event Powell Soundstage · Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, Long Branch, New Jersey
An Oct. 2 illustrated program at the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music traces the long relationship between Springsteen, Monmouth University and the New Jersey culture that helped shape both the artist and the archive now preserving his work.
Before America 250, New Jersey Looks Back at America's 200th
Event New Jersey State Museum · Trenton, New Jersey
The New Jersey State Museum's Spirit of '76 exhibition uses the Bicentennial to examine how a divided country tried to celebrate itself 50 years ago - and why that exercise feels newly relevant during the Semiquincentennial.
The Places We Can Visit Without Entering
Culture
Virtual heritage is moving beyond museum novelty. The same 3D scans used to monitor caves, ruins and conflict-damaged monuments are becoming public experiences, raising a strange new possibility: the digital version of a place may remain accessible long after the physical one cannot be.
Eighteen Days Until the Lucas Museum Opens the Door on Narrative Art
Event Lucas Museum of Narrative Art · Exposition Park, Los Angeles
The long-awaited Los Angeles museum opens Sept. 22 with more than 1,300 works, continuous film screenings, comic art, illustration, cinema, mythology, a 13-acre park and one unusually broad argument about what belongs in an art museum.