Reviews of Morris Museum (Museum)

Mona Helmy

Excellant I enjoyed

Jagdesh Garib

Kid friendly.

Fortunat Mueller-Maerki

The foremost public repository of antique mechanical music instruments and related atomatons in the western hemisphere. Anything from simple music boxes to world class androids and huge carousel organs. The world famous Guineas collection is but one department of this well run municipal cultural institution, which also includes a Theater and musical events. Also a great place to take kids of any age.

Alanna Fowlie

Great for little ones and big ones alike.

Dee Snow

I liked this place well maintained grounds knowlegable staff very pleasant

J O

Easy parking. Small, family friendly museum. Lots of interactive exhibits.

Michelle-Lien House

Lovely museum. It may be small but it is packed with interesting exhibits.

Doreen Agyeman

A good place to prep your little kids for a visit to a bigger museum. Not overwhelming. Just right for kids. I recommend this place.

Matthew M.

Was a really fun experience. Would go there again

Myong Choo

Kids had fun. There was a chocolate exhibit going on. It's good for a few hours, but not an all day thing. Will probably return when there's another interesting exhibit.

Republican Bob

What a waste of money it was for my family to go there today. It started just at the entrance, as we were paying $34.00 for two adults and two kids, we noticed the sign that offered the same amount of people for 25% off. Do you think the guy would let us get the discount? Nope. Then, it was on to what amounted to a museum who must have had a budget of one you'd find in a third-world country. Plenty of rocks, some Indian artifacts, a poorly-lit music box display... just a bunch of boring garbage! Do yourself a favor- go into NYC and see real museums.

Jerilyn MacLaren-Hall

A wonderful local museum designed to introduce kids to the museum experience and also engage adults in some creative and unexpected exhibits such as recent ones around hollywood costumes, tea set collections, etc. There is something for everyone in the family and it is a very realistic size for bringing an entire family. Staff is warm and excited in the material they have to share with visitors. Guinness collection is a little dark - but i suspect that is because of what the exhibit is? It might be a good idea to explain those aspects of what it takes to keep an exhibit like that in good shape so it all makes sense. Great value for a membership.

Ashley Dill

Pretty cute small museum. Brought my twin 19 month olds and there was things for them to do there . Look like they had fun

Tharak Abraham

Must visit if you are living in this or nearby county

judy gesey

Super fantastic, give your self some time

Phil Manno

Great place to visit

Nancy Wilkinson

Love this little museum and the shows ssre fantastic

Jennifer Culler

My 6 year old had fun exploring and looking at the exhibits.

Alina Khasanova

It was fun being their, expecially the music box collection

Marc Fabiano

So much to look at! Really cool! Good for all ages

David S Mandel

Thoroughly enjoyed the Guinness collection of mechanical instruments, and the model trains. The Guinness speaker was very knowledgeable .

Kimberly Vega

Enjoyed 2 hours at this small museum with my 5 year old nephew on a rainy day. His favorite was the train exhibit. I was pleasantly surprised by the mechanical music collection.

Lee Posniack

Great museum. Lots of little galleries. If you have a Bank of America credit card, you can get 1 free admission the first Saturday of the month too! Great presentations throughout the year. Not terribly expensive either if you have to pay admission.

서현교

So so

C Cavender

Love the train show and the ever changing special exhibition

catherine malalah

The museum was excellent...spent quite a bit in their gift shop

Gregory Barbero

Very nice, perfect for a music obsessed son

Abby Benjamin

I recently visited the Morris Museum for the Toothpick World Exhibit. The exhibit was incredible. We were able to visit on a pay as you wish night (second and third Thursday of the month from 4 PM to 8 PM). The museum is generally only open until 5, so these late hours allowed us to come by after work and check out this limited time exhibit. We have done the same in the past for the lego exhibit. Definitely recommend checking out their high profile temporary installations!

matthew scarfo

Beautiful museum, great exhibits, easy to navigate. Overall a very pleasant experience, highly recommended.

Adriana Czuba

Love, love, love, ! Great museum the whole family of all ages will enjoy,!

Marvin Feil

We enjoyed it

Tammy Lachner

Automata con was amazing.

Jil H. Lesko

Small manageable museum with excellent exhibits. The Guinness collection is amazing. The model train set is great and you can really get lost in it...so many little details.

chris keksz

Very quirky. There is a entrance fee and they mostly close by 5. But a fun find .

suzie queen

The museum is extremely friendly. Meaning it isn't too big. We got there at 2pm, just in time to listen to a guide give a music demo, wandered around the whole museum at a casual pace and we enjoyed the model train display they had for the holidays. All this took us 2 hours. Parking is easy and free. Bathrooms were readily available and elevators too. Kid friendly. Enjoyed our visit.

Kay Cross

Outstanding! Make sure you plan your visit to be there at 2 pm for the music box lecture, excellent!

Jon De Leon

My son had an awesome time with the model train display. We also enjoyed the Mechanical Music and Automata room. They did a live presentation of some of the mechanical music machines. We went on the Bank of American free day. Overall we had a really good time!

Otabek Kasimov

Nice place for family

Wooch Yoo

They have Great collections.

Michele Yake

Really nice museum. My kids love it. Great childrens area.

sbrumme99 tt

Price is reasonable. Lots for the kids to touch and do.

Walter Stanek

Very casual setting. Not busy when we went so the grandchildren could take their time seeing everything. Train exhibits got most of their time and attention.

Michael Fedorak

Small but enjoyable museum. Especially for kids.

John Amosa

A good place to go and get the library passes which will get you free admission.

Dana Caraballo

Small but fun to check out

Vishal kumar P

Small museum, good to spend time for an hour or two.kids have limited activities. Get family museum pass from your local library if available

San Gan

Great place!

Denise Cramer

Very nice place love the exhibit s

janakiram yadav

Good for kids and can engage up to 2 to 3 hrs

Sharon Marie

Hidden gem, and extremely kid friendly! Doesn't open to 11, unfortunately.

Alek K

Good for kids. Steampunk, dinosaurs, old mechanical music machines. A few Picasso works.

Mohamed Makey

Amazing experience

freeman1027

Bickford theater, great show's

Sarah Turnamian

Really wonderful place for my young kids. The model train room by itself would have been enough entertainment! There was also a dinosaur exhibit and musical instruments. Plus a whole exhibit on fire fighting. We went on a free night and I would go back and pay admission. Great museum!

Bala Raman

Seems big donor converted his private collection into museum. Loved the fully functional train town. Some of the weekdays evening has fee free entry.

Brenden Michelus

Really cool little museum. Make sure not to pass by the glass door in the room after the lobby; that's the best part! The automata collection is amazing! They often have tours and will play the machines! Great fun stop for anyone into mechanisms and automata.

Ro Olech

Nice day out

Takako Asaka

This place is great for kids and family. Kids would love this place!

Ted Potter

Unique and informative. Excellent venue for events as well. Rich history and always friendly staff.

Christine Fabrycki

Nice small museum. Great holiday train display. Interesting exhibition on musical instruments.

Heather Bivona

Great museum with beautiful artwork. Love how they change their displays regularly, so you see new art with every visit.

Richard Torres

This is a decent small sized museum. They have plays and interesting exhibitions. It is pretty good for kids. It also, oddly enough, is a popular wedding destination.

Kaitlyn Partington

Nice exhibits! Good for young kids, especially the music section. A lot of interactive elements.

Barry Savage

Poor. I took my daughter, grandson, and 10-week old granddaughter to the yoyo show. It was a good show, but when I purchased tickets, there was a sign stating the everyone must have a ticket "by order of the Morris Township Fire Marshall." I questioned why a 10-week old, being held by the mother, needed a ticket, and they claimed that it was the Fire Marshall's order. I spoke with Linda Morris, the director of the museum, after talking with the Fire Marshall (who said there was no such order). She eventually got back to me and said that it may have been a previous Fire Marshall who ordered that, but because they have to track how many people are in the audience everyone, including a 10-week old, had to have a ticket. I have never heard of anything like this before. Just a way to rip-off people. I'll never be back. I asked Linda to run this by the Board of Directors, and she reluctantly agreed to let me know their response. I'm following up for early October.

Pam Molnar

It's a lovely collection...the lino glass exhibit was fabulous. The music box/ automation demo GREAT... enjoyable.

Ryan Priest

Smaller museum, but a good variety of exhibits. Check for special exhibits.

Meriam El Mansour

Nice quiet museum with a good variety of eclectic beautiful art.

The Motivational Eater

Great experience...loved the Guinness Music collection as well as the kinistetics exhibit! I also so an ad that offers this venue for weddings, bridal showers, etc...

S F

Very cool, charming place. Theater is cozy.

Gregory Maizous

A great place for families with kids

V B

Fun for free with Bank of America Museums on Us

Philip Alban

Great exhibits for a local museum. Ideal for children's school trips.

michele park

Delightful experience for the grandchildren, and especially interesting with the gem collection.

Wetlene Pinthiere-Cross

Cozy, not a big selection to see.

Jo V.

With all the exhibits, admission is worth the price!

Steve Mansee

An extraordinary Museum in Morristown, NJ. Features include the Murtaugh Guiness collection of antique automata and mechanical musical machines, which ranks among the finest in the world.

Mary Lou Skillin

One of the great Treasures of New Jersey!

Jered Leber

Small but nice !

Sanjay N

Train set and planetarium are good. Kids loved them. Orchestrion collection is impressive.

Girija Sundar

Fun place for kids

Nila Shah

Very good collection of musical instruments

Komal Shekhar

Nice collection of stones The evolution of musical instruments.. Indian musical section touched my heart

Katya Ay

Always good program for kids. Never get tiered from this place.

William Keyser

Great place to bring kids. Trains, dinosaurs and lots of fun!

Grant Bilker

Tons of awesome automata on display when I went. Unfortunately, some of the equipment wasn't working properly on the tour portion, but the rest of the tour was great. Get to the tour 10 min early to get a good seat.

Jane Martin

Small museum with nice variety of displays. The model train display was excellent-the kids loved it. They also l I'll ked the dinosaur exhibit, the Crystal's and gems and the Guiness display of automated music machines.

Sean Gugler

The mechanical music player collection is well worth the price alone! Make sure you get a live demo. I hadn't visited in nearly forty years, glad to see old favorites like the model trains, minerals, and dinosaur exhibit were still there. The native American beadwork collection is fascinating as well.

John Givelis

Great unique collection

Richard Shortman

Little bit of everything. The Curator deserves a cookie and a gold star. Plenty of stuff for children such as trains and dinosaurs. Plus enough to entertain us adults. Steampunk now, rock and roll. Incredible mix all presented very thoughtfully.

Carole Mraz

I liked the Morris Museum because it had a variety of exhibits. From musical boxes to dinosaurs, I felt I received a well rounded tour.

Jason Huang

Tremendous place for young kids. Impressive mechanical music boxes and dolls. Highly recommend the Guinness collection

Joseph C. Noto

Great performance in a very nice atmosphere

Diwakar Prasad

There are not many things to do in Morristown sometimes and hence, this place is recommended. The staff was very friendly. This place has preserved many natuve American history artifacts. They have a dedicated section for music lovers which also explains the science behind it. There is a small dinosaur fossil section and a miniature version of a city (Morris). I personally loved this section. There were trains and bussbrunning around which kept a lot of visitors excited.

Rob Herion

What a gem! This collection of mechanical music players is outstanding! Don't miss the demonstrations. Great fun for young and old.

Robert Schlegel

If you like Old music boxes and automatons, visit the Morris Museum. 2 interesting model railroads to see and interact with also.

Minjung ko

My family went there on Thursday and the admission was free, there were many kinds of old music boxes which was very interesting and especially we liked the toy train very much. There are many buttons for the train when you press them there are many functions which we loved the most!! I recommend here to the parents who have boy children! I think you can stay 1-2 hours here for touring the whole museum.

Jacqueline Galasso

Spent day with my daughter. I used to take her here alot when she was younger. Brought back alot of great memories. Loved the front sitting room with portraits and wing back chairs. Could sit there all day.

Steve McKinley

This is a very important part of the community. Children learn, adults enjoy the cultural opportunities.

Carl Shapiro

Wonderful exhibits.

Nora Miller

Exhibits are always changing, and many are the same. Can't get enough of a wonderful museum even my 13 and 15 year old grandsons love this place !!

Mark Wickham

Small but nice. The autotamatoms are worth the entry fee alone.

Wayne Griffin

A very nice hidden treasure in Morristown!

Ann Hye

Great way to enjoy a rainy afternoon with your granddaughter.

Peter Wells

Great place to bring my little one. Quiet place and full of interactive exhibits.

Robert Zimmerman

The children's play was excellent my grandson really enjoyed it

John H

Small but nice museum. There permanent exhibit on mechanical characters is really interesting.

Kim Anderson

Excellent venue for a wedding reception!

CECILIA ROD

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Somnus Doctorow

Very nice small museum

Tim Arencibia

Expanded and we'll thought out. Automata exhibit is great for kids and ADULTS.

Richard Taft

The Morris Museum has been around since I was a child... The display of music boxes and automatons was absolutely spectacular... There was two large rooms of student art and photography... The steam punk hardware display was very interesting... Only two displays of steam punk fashion... Was hoping for more... One star off because the elevator to the first floor was still out of order after months... So wheel chairs can not see that display... Also the ultraviolet room in the gem area is not wheelchair accessible... The other is the model railway area is only open on the third weekend of the month... That was one of the 3 displays I came to see... I understand staffing issues, but only one weekend a month... I'm sure there are plenty of rail fans out there that would volunteer to keep it open more often.. Overall we had a good visit... We will be back again

Pete Donlon

Small but interesting. The Gruen exhibition was a pleasant surprise

Jigo Santos

The automata is nice, wish they have something in demo other than the musical. It's a big place, they could have more stuff.

Logical Ghost

Beautiful space with unique and unforgettable exhibits.

Roman Onik

19th century automations, a bit of music history, some prehistoric exhibits, etc. Worth a visit, especially with school age kids.

BenAmy Yu

This was a cute museum with interesting exhibits but a little of things were broken and messy especially the areas/activities for kids.

Gary Levin

Great museum in general. We went to the Steam Punk exhibit. I think there is a new version starting soon. Very inventive. The New Jersey minerals exhibit is permanent and fascinating. For those who like model trains, they moved it from the basement into a larger space. They have a permanent automata and music box exhibit.

Andrew Oleniach

I've been going here since I was a kid, 40 years ago. They manage to keep things fresh with special exhibits and rotation.

Camille Payne

Great museum !

Emily Schaefer

Absolutely love the automata exhibit. Make sure to get there in time for the daily demonstrations at 2.

Christine Kleinwaks

Nice spot to get out of the rain.

Nicholas johnson

Go check out this place! One of the places to check out if your around Morristown! Whoever Runs the place is doing well

Molly Dunlop

Super fun train exhibit. Can't wait to go back and explore further.

mykl atoms

Wonderful family and adult combo museum and Showplace.

Robert Hillebrecht

Beautiful, small theatre space for intimate performances.

hem ghosh

Great place

Joseph Licata

A special place for me because we visited on all my birthdays as a child and teenager. Still amazing. Guinness Collection of automatons and musical machines is world class. You must pay this 100+ year old NJ treasure a visit!

Russ Schon

Not your ordinary museum. Definitely worth checking out.

marshall silverstein

Wonderful must see very clean handicap accessible very good experience

jil ayers

Great exhibits

Kenneth Belasco

Great place to take the kids on a rainy day!

JR C

Good weekend spot, to explore and experience all the new and exciting exhibits.

Ralph Grisi

Took the grandkids fun train exhibit. Good place to spend a couple of hours.

Jill Osias

Steampunk exibit really excellent. Artwork from Morris County high school students blew my mind. Lots of stuff to visit and revisit.

narnama

Loved it ..beautiful muesuem..check it ou

Shaniece Degazon

Great indoor place for the entire family. They have great art exhibits here that are constantly changing. They also have art classes here for kids and adults hosted by laurie harden. My kids truly have developed in their art skills since taking her classes every summer and winter. The classes are super reasonable as well. Sign up fast space is limited for these classes.

Richard Fahrer

Great for families and kids with rotating exhibit. Season passes if you plan to go regularly are quite affordable

Chris Soucy

Wonderful museum with great continuing ed programs

Nadine Bencik

Lovely museum... Glad we went.

kathe coopersmith

We enjoyed ourselves. It's a small museum so don't plan to spend too much time here.

Maria-Isabel Carnasciali

Great special exhibits. Nice place to do/see something locally without driving into the city.

Jeff D

I always wanted to go here and I was happy that I did. It doesnt have the best most provocative art or displays but what it does have is enough to make me happy. It's a beautiful building and it's easy to navigate. The main gallery was a great space and I will checking back for new displays.

Claudia Zhao

The train exhibits were amazing

Amanda Klein

Attended a wedding reception there - beautiful venue. Good food, cool to experience the exhibition during cocktail hour.

Mahin Salimzade

Absolutely beautiful place

Kathy Miller

Very interesting museum. Huge musicbox collection

Tamar Medzadourian

We love this place, can come back every week and still have fun.

Ravi Sharma

Nice place for dance/art celebration

Bobbi Cox

A must see and enjoy. Fun, interactive and engaging. "Steam Punk". "Guinness musicals". "Rocks".

Suzan Lindsey

A lot of History and Beautiful Art pieces.

Chris D'Anna

Grave for kids brought my four year old and she was neither the youngest nor the oldest there. Very family-friendly.

Carol DeGraw

Love the Bickford Theater - a hidden treasure.

Danalis Anderson

Beautiful place

Kimberly Pfirrmann-Powell

This was a great family friendly museum in Morris County. While they have lots to offer in terms of variety, my favorite part of the museum was the automatica! They were so strange and so intriguing. I especially loved the videos of them performing whatever little movements they were designed to make.

Big Boss

My only complaint is I wish it was bigger. Otherwise a ton of really cool exhibits, it's also very cheap and a great place to bring a date.

Millie Hayes

PROS: Inexpensive, great location, interesting exhibits, best gem & mineral collection CONS: Broken exhibits, broken elevator My large family and I spent about 3 hours here on a Tuesday afternoon during the Passover break. As soon as we got there, the docent told us there would be a live demo (the only one of the day) where they would play some of the large music boxes in the collection. This was really not a good presentation for smaller kids, since there was a lot of talk and not so much action. However, they do have a hands-on kids' lab where you can create some punch paper music for a box. My kids and I particularly enjoyed the train exhibits. The larger train exhibit downstairs actually had buttons that controlled various features in the large and detailed model train. The gem and mineral collection is excellent, one of the best I've seen in a smaller museum. They had many large specimens that the children enjoyed touching and learning about. The only negative thing I can say about this museum is that many of the listening exhibits in the music box collection were broken. In addition, the elevator was broken, necessitating leaving our stroller downstairs whilst we perused the upstairs exhibits. There's no food here, only a few snacks for purchase in the gift shop. The gift shop had many affordable items for both children and adults. I would definitely visit this museum again.

Anu Punukollu

Very nice museum for all ages. They have exhibits which are very unique and educational

Andrew Pantano

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