My Favorites!
- Rats Restaurant and the NJ Grounds for Sculpture
- Gypsy Fish - Main Street near the railroad tracks in Riverton. This boutique makes me happy. It's full of vintage treasures and art made with vintage bits and bobs. I have found truly delightful gifts in this shop.
Art and Architecture
• Trenton Sculpture Garden - www.groundsforsculpture.org/
• Stickley museum - www.stickleymuseum.org/
• Cape May, NJ a charming seaside town of Victorian homes - www.capemay.com
• Fairmount Park the largest collection of colonial homes in the US -
www.phila.gov/fairpark/culture/architecture/
Articles: http://architecture.about.com/library/weekly/aa022801a.htm
The American Institute of Architecture celebrates 300 years of Philadelphia architecture -
http://www.aiaphila.org/E/E_fs_hp.htm
Gardens, Zoos and Aquariums
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Bartram's Garden - www.bartramsgarden.org
•Chanticleer - www.chanticleergarden.org/
•Hamilton Sculpture Garden - www.groundsforsculpture.org/
•Longwood Gardens - www.longwoodgardens.org
•Morris Arboretum - www.business-services.upenn.edu/arboretum/
•Shofuso, Japanese House and Garden - www.shofuso.com
•The Tyler Arboretum - www.tylerarboretum.org/
•Winterthur Gardens - www.winterthur.org
•Wyck, A Germantown Home and Rose Garden - www.wyck.org
•Philadelphia Zoo - www.phillyzoo.org
•New Jersey State Aquarium (Camden) - www.njaquarium.org
The Philadelphia Flower Show The oldest and largest flower show in the country -
http://www.theflowershow.com/home/index.html
Museums New Jersey (south and central)
Cape May
The Cape May County Historical Museum - www.cmcmuseum.org
Emlen Physick Estate - www.capemaymac.org/
Historic Cold Spring Village - www.hcsv.org/
Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts - www.capemaymac.org/default.htm
Cape May historical society - www.capemayhistory.org/
Green Village Road
Carousel World, Inc. - www.carouselworld.com/
Hamilton
Grounds for Sculpture - www.groundsforsculpture.org/
Millville
Museum of American Glass - www.wheatonvillage.org/
Moorestown
Perkins Center for the Arts - www.perkinscenter.org
Princeton
Historic Morven - www.historicmorven.org/
The Historical Society of Princeton - www.princetonhistory.org/
Trenton
The New Jersey State Museum - www.state.nj.us/state/museum/
Old Barracks Museum - www.barracks.org/
Trenton Police Museum - http://tpdmuseum.com/
William Trent House - www.williamtrenthouse.org
Woodbury
Friendship Fire Company Museum - www.jersey.net/~dwayne/history1.htm
Museums -- Pennsylvania (Phila area)
Bensalem
Museum of Unnatural Mystery - www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/unmuseum.htm
Chadds Ford
Brandywine River Museum - www.brandywinemuseum.org/
Chadds Ford Historical Society - www.chaddsfordhistory.org/
Doylestown
James A. Michener Art Museum - www.michenerartmuseum.org/
The Bucks County Historical Society - www.mercermuseum.org/
Hershey
Hershey Museum - www.hersheymuseum.org/
Museum of Bus Transportation - www.busmuseum.org/
Lancaster
Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster County - www.lancasterheritage.com/
The North Museum of Natural History & Science - www.northmuseum.org/
The Phillips Museum of Art - Franklin and Marshall College -
www.fandm.edu/departments/phillipsmuseum/about.html
Philadelphia
•American Swedish Historical Museum - www.americanswedish.org/
•Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies - www.balchinstitute.org/
•The Betsy Ross House - www.ushistory.org/betsy/
•The Design Center - Pennsylvania University - www.philau.edu/designcenter/
•The Franklin Institute Science Museum - www.fi.edu/
•Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust and Meetinghouse - www.meetinghouse.info/
•The Historical Society of Pennsylvania - www.hsp.org/
•Independence National Historic Park - www.nps.gov/inde/
•Independence Seaport Museum - www.phillyseaport.org/
•La Salle University Art Museum - www.lasalle.edu/
•Mutter Museum - www.collphyphil.org/muttpg1.shtml
•National Museum of American Jewish History - www.nmajh.org/
•Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts - www.pafa.org
•Philadelphia Museum of Art - www.philamuseum.org
•Rosenbach Museum & Library - www.rosenbach.org
•Univ of Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthroplogy -- www.museum.upenn.edu/
•Woodmere Art Museum - www.woodmereartmuseum.org/
Wayne
• The National Center for the American Revolution - www.valleyforgemuseum.org
West Chester
• The Condiment Packet Gallery - www.miniband.com/condiment/
Valley Forge
• The Welcome Center at Valley Forge - www.valleyforgemuseum.org
Cool Towns and Neighborhoods
•Burlington - http://08016.com/ and www.tourburlington.com
(you know your cool when you have muliple web sites)
•Collingswood - www.collingswood.com
•Haddonfield - www.haddonfieldnj.org
•Mount Holly - www.MainStreetMountHolly.com
•Riverton - www.rivertondirectory.com
