Top 5 Museums in Montclair, New Jersey (NJ)

Essex Fine Arts is a full service gallery offering the visitor to Montclair a chance to view local artists in an inviting atmosphere. Also featured are Montclair postcards to remember your visit. Other art gifts are available including affordable miniature art, fair trade jewelry and art related gifts. Custom framing is available and can be shipped back home at a resonable cost.

The Montclair History Center (MHC), a private, nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization, promotes preservation, study and appreciation of local history. We are stewards of four historic houses in Montclair: the Crane House and Historic YWCA (110 Orange Road), the Nathaniel Crane House (110 Orange Road), the Clark House (108 Orange Road), and the Shultz House, also known as Evergreens (30 North Mountain Ave).

The Montclair Art Museum, a notable, community-based institution with an international reputation, boasts a renowned collection of American and Native American art that uniquely highlights art making in the United States over the last three hundred years. The collection includesmore than 12,000 objects: paintings, prints, original works on paper, photographs, and sculpture by American artists from the 18th century to the present, as well as traditional and contemporary Native American art and artifacts representing the cultural developments of peoples from all of the major American Indian regions. The Museum’s education programs serve a wide public and bring artists, performers, and scholars to the Museum on a regular basis. MAM’s Yard School of Art is the leading regional art school, offering a multitude of comprehensive courses for children, teens, adults, seniors, and professional artists.