Check us out in this month’s New Jersey Monthly Magazine and Discover NJ Museums: Ultimate Guide to Under-the-Radar Places!
“These lesser-known museums are fascinating treasure troves of art, history, wildlife and some of the oddest oddities around.” – NJ Monthly Magazine, March 2022
Link to NJ Magazine here.
John F. Peto Studio Museum
Island Heights
The artist John F. Peto lived and worked in a Victorian, shingle-style house in Island Heights, the picturesque Methodist camp-meeting settlement on a hilly peninsula overlooking the Toms River, where he painted trompe l’oeil still-lifes that now hang in America’s most prominent art museums. The house stayed in his family for almost a century after his death in 1907 and is now a meticulously restored studio museum where you can see not just his paintings, but other items he painted, as well as rotating exhibits of other artists. —KC
102 Cedar Avenue; 732-929-4949