Connecting historical sites and local artists, History Pinned is an opportunity to collect unique buttons while exploring New Jersey’s past. Collect all five buttons from all five historical sites to win a prize!
History Pinned 2025 will launch May 24, 2025
History Pinned 2025 Sites
Cape May MAC celebrates the history and enriches the life of greater Cape May. We breathe life into the stories and places of the past and foster unforgettable experiences in history, arts, and culture. Travel in time—along the stairs, streets, and scenes that have drawn generations to our shores. America’s oldest seashore resort welcomes you.
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum
MHHM strives to inspire visitors, on site or online, to experience everyday American history as it was lived at Macculloch Hall from 1810 to 1949, and through interpretation of the collections established for public benefit beginning in 1950. MHHM interprets its history within the context of broader community, state, national, and international trends contemporary to the historical period as well as to how that moment in time is interpreted today.
A National Historic Landmark, Morven is situated on five pristine acres in the heart of Princeton, New Jersey. The home of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and former New Jersey Governor’s Mansion, Morven showcases the rich cultural heritage of the Garden State through regular exhibitions, educational programs, and special events.
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts explores American history with a focus on the life and stories of 18th- and 19th- century craftsmen and artisans. Drawing on its rich collection, METC connects the lives of people and their stories, while providing a bridge from the past to the future. Housed in Madison’s first public library building, this stunning Richardsonian Romanesque Revival building was donated by D. Willis James to the people of Madison, NJ in 1900.
Tuckerton Seaport and Baymen’s Musuem
Originally launched as the Barnegat Bay Decoy and Baymen’s Museum, the Tuckerton Seaport has evolved over the past twenty-five years into a community museum and community center occupying 40 acres located along historic Tuckerton Creek in Tuckerton, New Jersey. Tuckerton Seaport works as a coastal cultural center to bring folklife traditions of the past and present to life through programs on land and water.
Details
The pin-backed buttons and History Pinned booklets will be available at each location starting this summer.
Before visiting a site, please call to confirm their visiting hours. To receive your button, look for the History Pinned sign at the welcome desk or ask museum staff for assistance.
Supplies are limited and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
To receive your prize, collect a button from each of the five sites by October 31, 2025. Then fill out the History Pinned Prize Form or post a photo of yourself with your completed History Pinned booklet on Instagram tagging @revolutionnj.
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500 cultural and civic institutions across the country are hosting the fourth annual Civic Season between Juneteenth and July 4th, a new summer tradition for learning and action co-designed with Gen Z, the future inheritors of our democracy. Civic Season unites our oldest federal holiday with our newest, going beyond hot dogs and fireworks to invite meaningful reflection on our country's past and our role in shaping its future. Civic Season builds momentum toward the nation’s 250th anniversary in 2026.