Join the Museum of Jersey City History for our Holiday Open House! Join us at the museum for a day of holiday music, a light assortment of treats, and to see our current exhibits! This event is free and open to the public! We'll see you there!

Join Speranza Theatre Company for their Holiday Open Mic Night on Friday, December 13, 2024 @ 6:30 p.m. $10 to attend or participate! Win a holiday treat basket! 2 raffle tickets included with admission. All are welcome! Holiday-themed pieces are encouraged but not required! Poems, Monologues, Songs (unaccompanied) or Comedy — we want to hear it all!

SPECIAL NOVEMBER EVENT: History Happened Here — Paulus Hook Fall Tour with Preservationist John Gomez on Saturday, November 9, 2024, from 1-3 p.m. FREE with very limited spots, so make your reservation today!

The Met presents Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph, a second-generation Modernist, who came to prominence during the 1950s and 1960s alongside peers such as Eero Saarinen and I.M. Pei.

Join Friends of Ferris Triangle Park and Golden Light Poetry for this special community event at Greenville’s historic Ferris Triangle Park, named after Jersey City’s early-20th-century civil engineer James J. Ferris.

Join the Department of Environmental Protection on Saturday, September 28, 2024, for an open house-style event focused on the Liberty State Park Revitalization Program.

Register today for the Autumn in New York: Art Deco Weekend 2024 offered by The Art Deco Society of New York and enjoy an immersive extended weekend exploring and celebrating New York City’s finest Art Deco creations in midtown Manhattan and beyond.

The Architecture & Design Film Festival celebrates the unique creative spirit that drives the field of architecture and design.

Join the National Alliance of Preservation Commissionsfrom September 25-26, 2024, for a virtual conference focusing on topics relevant to the work of local preservation commissions. This event includes three pre-recorded sessions and three LIVE webinars.

Lente Latine/Latin Lens sheds light on recent works by Latin American photographers based on the east coast. Curated by the photographer Natali Bravo-Barbee, the exhibition at New Jersey City University/The Visual Arts Gallery highlights these artists’ exploration of their ancestral roots, cultural identity, and diasporic communities through varied photographic techniques. 

Come commemorate the Marquis de Lafayette's return visit to Jersey City 200 years ago! To commemorate the bicentennial of this event, a memorial sign will be dedicated at the Five Corners Library, the site of the former hotel. The plaque will be a part of the Lafayette Trail, tracing the route of Lafayette's visit.

This year, Climate Week NYC is being held from September 22-29, 2024. The event takes place every year in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly and is run in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York.

Find treasures at the autumn yard sale on Jersey City's architecture-rich Sherman Place!

By 2060 the majority of the global population will live in the urban realm. Climate action has become a critical imperative and communities are demanding more inclusive design processes and better solutions from our leaders. How can we address the unique changes caused by these twin evolutions? This year’s joint Re-energizing the City 2024 conference is co-sponsored by AIANY and will explore multiple perspectives and engage local and global thought-leaders to reframe the conversation from identifying current challenges to exploring examples of how integrated planning and design could bring resolution.

Back by popular demand, the Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to register for its fourth virtual conference. This three-day online event offers members and guests an opportunity to participate in meaningful exchange of ideas, no matter their time zone or availability to travel.

Register for the live course From Arts & Crafts to the Aesthetic Movement in Art and Architecture and travel from the British Isles and France to the United States with renowned architectural historian and professor Francis Morrone as he explores the remarkable explosion of creativity that resulted from artists, writers, and audiences seeking to preserve handicrafts and the prerogatives of untrammeled imagination in a new era of breathtaking — and frightening — change brought on by industrialization, routinization, and urbanization. In these lavishly illustrated lectures, Morrone will start in the late nineteenth century as critic and artist John Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood espoused artistic renewal in the face of industrialization. He will then highlight William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement, as well as Britain’s Aesthetic Movement and France’s Symbolists and Decadents, and finish with a survey of the American Arcadian Revival.

The Jersey City Ballet presents A Sinatra Story on Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 3pm at Sinatra Park in Hoboken. This very special performance is free and open to the public with history content advised by Hoboken Historical Museum Director Bob Foster!

The Museum of Modern Arts presents Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue, a landmark career retrospective on an immensely important photographer whose 1958 photo book — The Americans — featured imagery taken in Hudson County.

Bergen Square Day is Saturday, September 14, 2024, 12-6 PM!

Fun kids-related activity added to Bergen Square Day 2024!

Saturday, September 14th, 2024, is Bergen Square Day — and the historic Speer Cemetery gates on Vroom Street will be open from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., so bring the whole family and enjoy the free festivities!

The RNA Fall Flea Market in historic Riverview-Fisk Park will be back on Saturday, September 14, 2024, from 11 AM to 4:00 PM. Come on out to the Heights to sell or find some great treasures!

Join the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy in celebrating 25 years in the community at the 2024 Preservation Awards at the Barrow Mansion.

The National Preservation Law Conference 2024 will lead preservation attorneys, scholars, and professionals for a focused look into preservation law, highlighting recent and influential developments in the field. This in-depth session will provide you with the knowledge and skills to effectively advocate for and champion key preservation issues.

Join the Hoboken Historical Museum at the opening Upper Gallery reception for Drawings of Hoboken: Changing and Enduring Places by Darren Kall, which pays homage to the unique urban landscape of Hoboken in 15 black and white ink drawings.

Attend the opening reception for Remembrance: An Archival Exhibition, a special presentation of Casa Columbo Italian Educational Cultural Center & Center for the Arts in the heart of Jersey City’s historic Italian Village.

Join Area of Refuge for a guided photo tour of key historical and cultural sites in Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville of Jersey City! Each stop will have expert-led photography workshops to highlight and celebrate its cultural and historical significance.

Visit the New-York Historical Society to see the new exhibition Robert Caro's The Power Broker at 50, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of the monumental work that has been called “surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” Robert Moses’s Jersey City connection: Did you know that Moses, at the end of his life, was married at Jersey City’s St. Aedan’s Roman Catholic Church?

National Skyscraper Day is September 3, 2024, and the Jersey City Free Public Library’s Heights Branch will offer a fun 1-hour children’s activity!

Learn about the architecture and preservation scenes of Detroit, Michigan, with the 14th annual Detroit Month of Design during the month of September 2024!