Your Guide to Family-Friendly Day Trips in New Jersey, New York…and Beyond
It’s been on my list for years to visit the Museum of the City of New York with kids. And the impetus to make it happen: He Built This City. The ongoing exhibit features Queens-born artist Joe Macken who built a massive model of New York City’s five boroughs – 50 feet by 27 feet.
I saw a review of the industrial photography exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt and had to go. The museum is in a gorgeous Andrew Carnegie mansion on 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue. While the four floors cover a lot of design, I was worn out after just the photography exhibit. I must go back. I highly recommend the Cooper Hewitt with kids, especiallly this exhibit, which is through September 27, 2026.
It’s been a while since I’d been to the Museum of Arts and Design (MOAD) in NYC. It was time to revisit! And I picked a good time – there are two exhibits that kids would enjoy. The first is Jonathan Adler, and the second is the Haas Brothers. Go visit MOAD with kids and see these exhibits.
Experience Divine Egypt at the Met with kids this holiday season. The exhibit is only here through January 19.
When we last took Jersey Kids readers to the Morgan Library & Museum, it was for a general overview on how to visit the Morgan Library with kids, along with reviewing an exhibit on Bella da Costa Greene, the library’s former librarian and director. The library and museum now has a new exhibit, the Morgan Library Renoir drawings.
I can’t believe it took us this long to get to the Morgan Museum and Library. I can’t wait to go back. Have you gone to the Morgan Library with kids? The residence on the left is part of the complex, along with the Renzo Piano building in the middle and the annex on the right of it. The library is behind all this, in the far corner.
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This not your typical Jersey Kids post, as absinthe is not a typical kids’ drink. To say the least. If you’re in New Orleans, visit the Museum of the American Cocktail, which is part of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. The museum is kid-friendly – the cocktail part is too (if kids are interested in learning about alcohol – there are some fun glasses, including tiki glasses there).
A sizable portion of the cocktail area is devoted to absinthe, a liquor not so common in our lives today. But it was very popular in the 1800s – artists and writers especially loved it. Think: Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe. There were coffee houses/cafes that specialized in the drink.
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I’ve been to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty a handful of times since I’ve lived in New Jersey Each time I learn something new. But after taking the Ellis Island Hard Hat Tour with kids (have you even heard of it?) I now know even more. This is a great tour to take with kids – though the official age to go is 13+ (more on that later). You see a whole different side of Ellis Island – literally and figuratively.
As New Jersey’s tallest lighthouse, the Absecon Lighthouse is 171 feet tall. It is also the nation’s third tallest. Go to Abesecon Lighthouse with kids!
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If you’ve been in the Atlantic City area, you probably have heard about or seen Lucy the Elephant. Touted as the top roadside attraction in America, Lucy has been around in various forms since 1881, in Margate – just south of Atlantic City.
