New Jersey
Museum of local aviation, with some interesting specimens and displays.
A military logistics and transportation terminal, on a two and a half mile long manmade peninsula in New York Harbor. Employs 1,200 people. Scheduled to be closed by the military some time in the future, to become a commercial port location.
A research and development facility run by the FAA. At any one time, about 150 projects are underway. The installation covers 5059 acres consisting of laboratories, test facilities, support facilities, an airplane hanger and the Atlantic International Airport...
A military communications, electronics, and electronic warfare research and development center, located at the 1,560-acre office/industrial park-like Fort Monmouth. Major developments in communication and surveillance technologies have taken place here,...
A museum featuring mineral specimens illuminated under different types of light, and a mine replica. This part of New Jersey was a major zinc mining area until the ore was depleted in the 1950's.
A naval aviation research and development base, recently realigned, with some operations heading to Jacksonville Naval Air Station and Patuxent River Naval Station. Once a rigid airship factory and port, and site of the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. Two of the...
An environmental and regional learning center, and the headquarters of the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission. Until 1999 the facility housed the "Trash Museum," an educational museum about garbage, which included a walk through cross section of trash. Before...
An exhibition called "Projects in Nature" was held in 1975 on a private estate in rural New Jersey, involving eleven "environmental artists," most of whom constructed some kind of outdoor work on the property. Artists included Carl Andre, Alan Sondheim, John...
A nuclear fusion research lab, owned by the Department of Energy, and operated by Princeton University. Facilities include the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, the Princeton Beta Experiment, and the Current Drive Experiment. On 72 acres in Princeton, employing...
A partially completed reclamation land art sculpture/park at an old landfill, built by Nancy Holt and the people of New York and New Jersey. Holt worked with the Meadowlands Development Commission in engineering the closure of the dump. According to the plan...
A museum of military communications, located on the grounds of Fort Monmouth, the major Army communications development center.