Calendar of Events

Enjoy a walk around downtown Princeton and the University campus as you learn about historic sites in the area, including Nassau Hall, University Chapel and [...]

Please note: Due to spring break and the holiday weekend, here are no public walking or museum tours between April 3 and 5.  When the [...]

Enjoy a guided introductory tour (approximately 30 minutes) of the Historical Society's late 18th/early 19th century farmhouse museum and grounds, including the renovated barn and [...]

Join us on a hike through the treasured Institute Woods to explore bits of history, as well as the sites and sounds that form this [...]

Enjoy a walk around downtown Princeton and the University campus as you learn about historic sites in the area, including Nassau Hall, University Chapel and [...]

  In 1943, Bulgaria complied with German demands and deported nearly 11,400 Jews from occupied territories in northern Greece and Yugoslavia (Macedonia). At the same [...]

Playwright Deborah Brevoort, director Sheldon Epps and members of the cast discuss their collaboration on the upcoming "My Lord, What a Night," about the night [...]

Enjoy a guided introductory tour (approximately 30 minutes) of the Historical Society's late 18th/early 19th century farmhouse museum and grounds, including the renovated barn and [...]

Join author Clifford Zink on a walking tour outside Princeton University’s majestic eating clubs. Learn about the architecture, origins, and development of the sixteen Classical [...]

In 1953, the Marquand family donated 17 acres of their estate, Guernsey Hall, to the municipality of Princeton to serve as an arboretum and passive [...]

Enjoy a walk around downtown Princeton and the University campus as you learn about historic sites in the area, including Nassau Hall, University Chapel and [...]

Enjoy a guided introductory tour (approximately 30 minutes) of the Historical Society's late 18th/early 19th century farmhouse museum and grounds, including the renovated barn and [...]

America's first national tragedy, the death of George Washington, was memorialized in many decorative arts. Among these were the samplers and other needleworks made primarily [...]

Join us on a hike through the treasured Institute Woods to explore bits of history, as well as the sites and sounds that form this [...]

Enjoy a walk around downtown Princeton and the University campus as you learn about historic sites in the area, including Nassau Hall, University Chapel and [...]

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her book, Jefferson on Race, examining the contradictions between Thomas Jefferson’s ideals of equality and his life as a [...]

Francis Hopkinson, a member of the Continental Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was also an inventor, designer, accomplished poet, and multi-talented [...]