PATERSON — As a teenager, Giacomo DeStefano worked at Paterson’s public library stocking shelves. There he first became acquainted with the small museum located in the rear carriage house — so small ...

Visitors can expect to see rare memorabilia of hometown heroes including baseball star Larry Doby and comedian and actor Lou Costello. But there are also things like taxidermied insects and ...

A Durable Thread: The Silk Road from China to America reimagines the Silk Road by connecting China to the “Silk City” of Paterson, New Jersey, bringing together a world of silk objects from Asia... A ...

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History runs deep in Passaic County, and no one dug deeper or knew that history better than Edward A. Smyk. Smyk had just entered his 50th year as Passaic County historian when he died Thursday at St.

Some of the exhibits, such as the local pearls fished out of the Passaic River in the 19th-century “pearl rush,” have never been displayed before. The museum’s leaders spent much of their time at the ...

PATERSON — A new exhibition called "One Hundred Artifacts for One Hundred Years" opens on March 29 at the Paterson Museum in celebration of its centennial. The museum’s story is being told through ...