Monmouth Museum presents Petopia! & Holiday Model Trains Display

Celebrating the loving bond we have with our pets!

This year the Monmouth Museum’s Holiday Exhibition, Petopia! celebrates the loving bond we have with our pets as well as the universal affections for nature and the majestic power of all animals. The Monmouth Museum’s intent of this exhibition is to offer portraits that capture the cherished bond between the pet owner/parent and their pet. The Main Gallery is filled with paw-traits of man’s best fur-ends as well as en-deering depictions of furry, feathery, and scaly creatures big and small! Petopia! will be on display at the Museum through January 5, 2020.

This is the Monmouth Museum’s 32nd year presenting the popular Holiday Model Trains Display in the Main Gallery of the Museum. This is one of the most unique Train Exhibitions in the world because it is surrounded by an International Juried Art Exhibition. The trains have 6 lines on 3 levels, with over 1200 scale feet of track. The model train layout includes an airport and Jersey Shore seaside boardwalk amusement park. Much of the community is represented by the various real estate named for local businesses and families. The Ocean County Society of Model Railroaders assemble the Holiday Model Trains and create numerous upgrades and additions to this ever-expanding display. The exhibition is designed for kids of all ages, with interactive buttons accessible for their height. In addition, if you bring your children to see the trains, the Museum has two children’s wings with various interactive activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math.

In addition, this year the Museum will present a first-ever AIMM: Arts Inclusion at the Monmouth Museum, Petopia too! art exhibition which will have an opening reception on Friday, December 20th from 1:00 – 3:00 pm in the Museum’s Nilson Gallery. The featured selected artwork is part of a new pilot program created at the Monmouth Museum in their Green Arts Studio in partnership with the Arc of Monmouth County, and Monmouth County Parks Therapeutic Recreation.

The Museum offers a number of MMKIDS activities for the holiday season and vacation breaks. Tickets can be purchased on the Museum website monmouthmuseum.org. On Sunday afternoons the Museum offers free MMKIDS holiday activities with paid admission culminating Tuesday, December 31st with a New Year Celebration for children of all ages starting at 10am. The MMKIDS will create noise makers, hats and shakers in the Green Arts Studio of the Becker Children’s Wing. Then everyone will celebrate with a Happy New Year Parade through the Museum, around the Holiday Model Train Exhibition before gathering for a New Year’s Count Down at 12 noon to welcome in 2020 complete with a ginger ale toast!

This year’s Holiday Exhibition at the Museum will run through January 5, 2020. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM-5PM, and Sunday 12-5PM.

The Monmouth Museum, is an independent, non-profit museum, founded in 1963 as a Museum of Ideas. It presents changing art, history, and science exhibitions to educate and entertain while providing a destination for creative expression and life-long learning to the diverse community it serves.

For more information about the Monmouth Museum exhibits and programs their website is https://monmouthmuseum.org/mmkids/ or call 732-747-2266. You can also find them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Admission is $10.00 for visitors age 2 and over. The Museum is located on the Brookdale Community College campus, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738. Follow signs to Museum Drive and parking lot #1.