Museums & Galleries

Burlington County is home to many art galleries and museums. Three art galleries are located right here in your park system! Historic Smithville Park is home to two of them - The Smithville Mansion Annex Gallery and The Worker’s House Museum & Gallery. 

Smithville Mansion Annex Gallery - Historic Smithville Park, Eastampton, NJAnnexGallery


The Smithville Mansion Annex Gallery hosts larger exhibits and group art shows.


The Warden's House Gallery - 150 High Street, Mount Holly, NJ

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The Warden’s House Gallery, the home of the Hugh Campbell Collection also features fine art.


Worker's House Gallery - Historic Smithville Park, Eastampton, NJ

Workers House Front

The Worker’s House focuses on hand-crafted art and textiles.



Historic Prison Museum - 128 High Street, Mount Holly

Prison 2

The Burlington County Prison Museum is a National Historic Landmark located in historic Mount Holly. Designed by Robert Mills, one of America 's first native-born and trained architects, the Burlington County Prison was completed in 1811. One of Robert Mills' first designs as an independent architect, the interior vaulted ceilings of poured concrete and brick and stone construction made the building virtually fireproof. In fact, it was so well constructed that it remained in constant use until 1965.  

Burlington County Lyceum of History & Natural Sciences - 307 High Street, Mount Holly

Burlington County Lyceum of History & Natural Sciences - 307 High Street, Mount Holly, NJ

The Burlington County Lyceum of History and Natural Sciences, at 307 High Street in Mount Holly is the County’s first general history and natural science museum to be housed in the Langstaff Mansion.  

Built in the 1830s, the Mansion was home to the Langstaff Family and became the original Burlington County Lyceum of History and Natural Sciences in the 1860s.  Most recently, the building was home to the Mount Holly Library until being purchased by the County in 2013.  The Library was the depository for 127 original volumes of the Library Company of Bridgetown formed in 1765. The museum will be dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the history of Burlington County through examination of its diverse communities, their ways of life, and their contributions to the world as it once was and as it is today.  

In addition to the installation of state-of-the-art exhibits and visual displays for the museum,  the landscaping has been restored to reflect the way the Langstaff Mansion looked from High Street in the 1800s. 

The Underground Railroad Museum of Burlington County operated in the City of Burlington for several years as a private enterprise by Louise Calloway at a site directly behind a station on the Underground Railroad. Following the Museum’s closure in the spring of 2013, the Burlington County Commissioners announced that a special exhibit of the Museum’s possessions would be housed at Smithville under the auspices of the Burlington County Parks System. This permanent location on the Historic Smithville Park grounds is now open. The museum offers visitors a visual presentation of the Underground Railroad experience in America, with emphasis on New Jersey and Burlington County where the Underground Railroad flourished before the Civil War. 

Underground Railroad Museum - Historic Smithville Park

Underground Railroad Building