National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey |
08750 Sea Girt, NJ, United States of America (USA) (New Jersey) |
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| Address |
100 Camp Drive
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| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
Military Museum in general
- Military technology
- Car radios
- Armored vehicles
- Military Aerospace
- Arms
- Military ships and submarine
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Opening times
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Monday - Friday: 10am - 3pm; State holidays: closed | ||||
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Status from 02/2024
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Free entry. | ||||
| Contact |
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| Homepage | njmilitiamuseum.org | ||||
| Location / Directions |
The Lawrenceville site is located on the Lawrenceville DMAVA campus in a new purpose-built building. Previously located in the historic Lawrenceville Armory, the museum reopened to the public in October, 2021. The Museum is near of the Entrance to the National Guard Training Center. |
| Description | New Jersey's Preeminent Military Museum The National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey tells the story of the state’s Militia and National Guard beginning with Dutch, Swedish and British colonization through the War for Independence to the Civil War, World Wars I and II and up to the present day, paying particular attention to the diversity of the New Jersey citizen soldier and his or her experience. Notably, the museum has one of the largest collections of New Jersey related Civil War research material in the country, including copies of diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, memoirs, regimental histories and articles. There are additional displays that explain New Jersey military history in broader context. In addition to the museum annex building, fifteen tanks, armored vehicles and cannon are on display outdoors. A HISTORICAL CURIOSITY The centerpiece of the Museum is the Intelligent Whale, a primitive post Civil War submarine powered by human muscle. Ideally four sailors would crank the propeller while the other crewmen labored to keep the submarine on course and off the bottom. At least one crew member was tasked with leaving the sub through the wooden door in the submarine’s hull floor and transporting and attaching a mine to the hull of an enemy vessel. You can actually poke your head up inside from beneath the sub and get a feel for how much space there was for the complement of 6 crewmen
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