Mahwah Museum

Mahwah Museum The mission of Mahwah Museum is to preserve and present the history of the community and its connection to the region.
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Museum exhibits display information about the history of Mahwah and the surrounding community. The Mahwah Museum offers a series of programs and events, both in person and virtual, including Gallery Talks presented by volunteers who have researched and created the exhibits, a lecture series featuring programs related to local history given by distinguished amateur and professional historians, and

workshops on topics relevant to the museum's mission. In addition, small group tours are offered for schools, scouts, and other interested groups. The museum’s collection of artifacts, photographs, historical records, and documents are carefully preserved, documented, and cataloged and are available by appointment to historians and researchers. By encouraging discovery, understanding, and appreciation of the region’s heritage, the museum provides perspective for the present and the future.

📘 This week, our Book Highlight is our NEW store addition: 'Indians and Iron: A History of the Ramapough Munsee Lenape o...
05/26/2026

📘 This week, our Book Highlight is our NEW store addition: 'Indians and Iron: A History of the Ramapough Munsee Lenape of the Ringwood Iron Complex at Ringwood and Hewitt, New Jersey'

This is the fifth book in a series exploring the evidence of the continuous presence of the Ramapough Munsee Lenape in New Jersey and New York.
Before European prospectors appeared in the Ramapo Mountains, the indigenous people here discovered magnetite iron ore. Showing colonial prospectors these deposits in the 1700s changed everything.
The authors examine the interplay between the iron industry and the people who showed prospectors the iron ore. The indigenous people were here before the rise of the iron industry, and many remained employed in iron making and mining, living for generations in company housing, building a community that still exists.

About the Authors:
Author and Archaeologist Edward J. Lenik digs into the records and the research, including his own work of more than 60 years. Here he brings together his early work on the iron industry and his landmark work on the continuous presence of Indigenous people, the Ramapough Munsee Lenape. Here in Ringwood where the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough remains, Ed has volunteered with the State Park Friends Groups for more than 60 years. Now he writes of what he has learned about Indians and Iron in this place. Ed has degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson in Business and New York University in Archaeology.
Nancy L. Gibbs is an artist, writer, poet, researcher, and historian who has worked with Ed Lenik for over 40 years. Her academic background in art and archaeology with a focus on tribal arts (B.F.A. Beloit College in Wisconsin and M.F.A. Michigan State University) provides counterpoint as she and Ed work and write together.

💳 You can purchase this special book on our website, or at the stop in the Museum on Saturdays from 1-4 pm! We'd love to see you!

Tonight! Spots are still open.🎟️Register online here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/unlock-your-ancestry-using-d...
05/14/2026

Tonight! Spots are still open.
🎟️Register online here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/unlock-your-ancestry-using-dna-for-your-family-history

🧬Unlock Your Ancestry: Using DNA for Your Family History with Cathy Moran Hajo
🗓️ Thursday, May 14th at 7:30 pm
Join Cathy Moran Hajo, Ph.D., to break through the genealogical brick walls of your family!
🎟️ Registration is now open. Purchase your tickets here: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/unlock-your-ancestry-using-dna-for-your-family-history

Commemorate Historic Mahwah and Revolution 250 in style with our newest collectible: a handcrafted, made-in-America rock...
05/07/2026

Commemorate Historic Mahwah and Revolution 250 in style with our newest collectible: a handcrafted, made-in-America rocks glass featuring a musket ball embedded in the glass made exclusively for the Mahwah Museum! 🥃

Raise a toast to the past — and keep a piece of it in your hand.

🛍️ Purchase yours now for only $30!
Buy yours online here: https://mahwahmuseum.org/product/cannonball-road-rev-250-rocks-glass/
Or stop by the Mahwah Museum on Saturdays from 9 am-1 pm to pick one up!

🎉 Les Paul 111th Birthday Celebration: The Les Paul & Mary Ford Tribute Show with Tom and Sandy Doyle 🎸Raise a glass to ...
05/05/2026

🎉 Les Paul 111th Birthday Celebration: The Les Paul & Mary Ford Tribute Show with Tom and Sandy Doyle 🎸

Raise a glass to a legend. Celebrate Les Paul’s 111 th birthday with an unforgettable Les Paul & Mary Ford Tribute performed live by Tom & Sandy Doyle on June 7 at 2:00 p.m. Cake will be served as we toast the birthday.

🗓️Sunday, June 7th
🕰️ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
📍Mahwah Museum, 201 Franklin Turnpike, Mahwah, NJ, 07430
🎟️ $25/Advance| $30 at the Door 

Registration is now open! Reserve your spot now: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/les-paul-111th-birthday-tribute-with-tom-and-sandy-doyle

Something sweet has been added to our Museum store! 🍯Local Campgaw Honey available now in our Museum store in both 1/2 a...
04/16/2026

Something sweet has been added to our Museum store! 🍯

Local Campgaw Honey available now in our Museum store in both 1/2 and pound varieties! 🐝

Shop our Museum store online, or visit us on Saturdays from 1-4 pm!

To mark America’s 250th Anniversary, our Museum Store is showcasing a special lineup of books that bring to life Mahwah’...
04/09/2026

To mark America’s 250th Anniversary, our Museum Store is showcasing a special lineup of books that bring to life Mahwah’s and Bergen County’s pivotal roles during the American Revolution. ⭐

📘 This week, our Book Highlight is: 'The Revolutionary War in Bergen County: The Times that Tried Men’s Souls' by Carol Karels

Carol Karels and her team of historians weave a masterful account of the struggle in northeastern New Jersey, from the perspectives of all involved. Here in Bergen County, Thomas Paine conceived the first words of his Crisis Papers, beginning with the words “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

Here also, future antagonists Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were baptized by fire, and families – in a foreshadowing of the Civil War -split bitterly along Loyalist and Patriot lines. From Washington’s desperate November 1776 retreat to the Delaware to the Continental army’s epic August 1781 march to destiny at Yorktown, The Revolutionary War in Bergen County examines one of the Revolutionary War’s most dramatic and pivotal fronts.

💳 You can purchase this special book on our website, or at the stop in the Museum on Saturdays from 1-4 pm! We'd love to see you!

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201 Franklin Tpke
Mahwah, NJ
07430

Opening Hours

1pm - 4pm

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+12015120099

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