About Us

While Asbury Park has been the subject of numerous books, documentary films, articles and essays, the popular seaside resort has never before had a permanent museum dedicated to its history. In 2018, a diverse team of concerned historians, journalists, educators, and community activists came together to form The Asbury Park Museum. Through private donations, the Asbury Park Museum first introduced itself to the public with a temporary exhibition, History of Asbury Park, located in the Fifth Avenue Pavilion on the city’s famed boardwalk over the winter of 2018.

Photo (left) by Milton Edelman

Rotating Exhibition Campaign
In the summer of 2021, the Asbury Park Museum began a relationship with the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, to showcase a series of exhibitions with changing themes.  The current exhibit continues that series.

2024 – Edge of the Waters: From the Lenape “Scheyichbi” to Bradley’s Founding of Asbury Park.  The history of Asbury Park 200 years before the founding of our resort city in 1871.

2023 – Be Our Guest: The Golden Era of Asbury Park’s Grand Hotels  Tracing the evolution of the city’s hotel industry, the factors which impacted its growth and decline and the workers who helped to sustain the industry.

2022 – One Voice is Not Enough, Asbury Park’s Musical Diversity Since 1871  Exploring how the “Sound of Asbury Park” was over a hundred years in the making, bringing to life the musical  genres of greater Asbury Park from the 1870s to the 1970s.

2022 – Trail Blazing Women of Monmouth County  Celebrating the area’s most influential women, the Asbury Park Museum’s exhibit at the Asbury Park Public Library during Women’s History Month .

2021 – Asbury Park: 150 Years of Change and Transformation, A Segregated Seashore   A multi-media tour through 150 years of history on the Asbury Park beachfront… viewed through the lens of a diverse but historically divided community.