- Friday and Saturday: 12-4 pm; Sunday: 1-4 pm
- Permanent and changing exhibits
- Workshops and community events offered throughout the year
- Molly’s Museum Store
- Gift shop
- Parking
- ADA accessible
- Free
- Donations appreciated
Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie
299 Parkside Avenue, Trenton, NJ 08606
609-989-1191
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, located in heart of Trenton’s historic Cadwalader Park, invites guests inside the earliest Victorian Italianate Villa of its type left in New Jersey. Designed by John Notman, who introduced the style to the United States in the early nineteenth century, the Mansion was built circa 1845 as a summer home for Henry McCall, a wealthy Philadelphian with business interests in Trenton. In 1898 the house was sold to the Trenton Park Commission and served several uses including as a monkey house for the City Zoo.
Today, the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie houses collections of art and artifacts depicting Trenton’s historical, industrial, and cultural past and present. Guests of all ages are treated to changing and permanent exhibits, community events, history and gallery lectures, workshops, and spoken word performances.
WHAT TO SEE AND DO
- Browse the galleries to see contemporary art exhibitions and artifacts related to Trenton’s past and present
- Attend a community event, lecture, or workshop offered throughout the year
- Take a stroll of Cadwalader Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1890
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