Event Schedule

March 7     -        Maple Sugar Sunday*

March 14   -        “A Spot of Tea”…the History of Tea

March 21   -        “Spiders and Salamanders”…18^th century Kitchen Gadgets

March 28   -        Silhouette Craft for Children*

April 11      -        The Abraham Clark Chair
April 18      -        African Slaves in New Jersey
April 25      -        Annual Sheep-to-Shawl Festival (1-4 p.m.)*
 
May 2         -        Cooking with Herbs and Herb Plant Sale
May 16       -       18th Century Science and Inventions
May 23       -       18th Century Folk Music*
May 29       -       Annual Aunt Carrie’s Attic Sale (9 a.m.-2 p.m.) Rain Date May 30
 
June 6        -       Prayer and Friendship Shawls
June 13      -      Summer Time on the Farm*

*Ideal for young children.                                                 

The museum is open from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday afternoons. Costumed docents are on hand to guide visitors through the 1740 farmhouse. Open-hearth cooking demonstrations take place in the Frazee Building during most Sunday programs.  Please ask about our weekday tours for groups and our Showcase of 18^th Century Skills, which visits local schools with an outreach crafts and lecture programs.  The museum office is open weekday mornings from 9 a.m. – noon.

Admission:  $2.50 for adults; $1.00 for students; children under four are free.  Please call the museum office for more information at 908-232-1776.

Famous for their appearance in Craig Claiborne's column in the New York Times and in four nationally distributed magazines, the cooks at the Miller-Cory House demonstrate the exacting art of food preparation on the open hearth.

The Museum Shop, open during Museum hours, contains educational materials, colonial reproductions and handcrafts, including cookbooks of colonial recipes prepared by Miller-Cory Volunteers.