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Morven Museum & Garden, Princeton, NJ
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Morven Museum & Garden

Morven Museum & Garden is a museum in Princeton, NJ, part of the Philadelphia guide. Cost: under $25.

55 Stockton Street · Princeton, NJ

Why you should go…

Morven Museum & Garden occupies a historic mansion in Princeton, New Jersey that housed five New Jersey governors, including the state's first. Today it operates as a museum with rotating exhibitions on New Jersey history alongside formal gardens that are open daily to the public.

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  • #princeton
  • #gardens
  • #new jersey history

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