Best museums and historic sites in Monmouth County, NJ

9 local picks across 7 towns, hand-picked by Monmouth Guide.

Revolutionary War battlefields, lighthouses, historic villages and museums that tell the county’s story. Here are 9 museums and historic sites across 7 Monmouth County towns, from Holmdel to Highlands.

Local favorites

• Allenhurst Residential Historic District

  Allenhurst · A walkable neighborhood of grand resort-era houses near the ocean

  The borough's well-preserved turn-of-the-century seaside homes, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

• Shrewsbury Historical Society Museum

  Shrewsbury · Includes items from the Hazard family, the "Ketchup Family of Shrewsbury", and models of the Historic Four Corners

  Small local history museum and research library at the Shrewsbury Municipal Center, focused on Shrewsbury from the mid-1800s on.

More museums and historic sites to try

• Historic Longstreet Farm

  Holmdel

  A free 1890s living-history farm with costumed interpreters, heritage-breed animals and demonstrations like blacksmithing and cider-making.

• Historic Walnford

  Upper Freehold

  A 36-acre historic mill village with the 1773 Waln House and a working 19th-century gristmill.

• InfoAge Science & History Museums

  Wall Township

  A "museum of museums" on historic Camp Evans covering radar, radio, space, computing and military history.

• Monmouth Museum

  Middletown

  An art, science and natural-history museum on the Brookdale campus with rotating exhibits and hands-on kids' galleries.

• New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial & Museum

  Holmdel

  A moving open-air memorial with an adjacent museum telling the story of the Vietnam era and New Jersey's veterans.

• The Historic Village at Allaire

  Wall Township

  A restored 1830s iron-making village in Allaire State Park with a working blacksmith shop, bakery and general store.

• Twin Lights Historic Site

  Highlands

  A castle-like 19th-century twin-towered lighthouse high above the Navesink River, with a museum and a climbable north tower.

Museums and Historic Sites by town

• Things to do in Holmdel2 picks here
• Things to do in Wall Township2 picks here
• Things to do in Allenhurst1 pick here
• Things to do in Shrewsbury1 pick here
• Things to do in Upper Freehold1 pick here
• Things to do in Middletown1 pick here
• Things to do in Highlands1 pick here

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