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Past Exhibits
The Lee Vold Gallery’s Catching the Daily
“Catching the Daily,” captures a spectrum of daily happenings from pageantry to playtime from Mahwah’s community. It features a cross section of popular events within Mahwah’s Township during the 1980s -90’s.
Opened 2020, closed 2023.
A College Comes to Mahwah: Ramapo College, 1965-1975
This exhibit explored the early history of Ramapo College on New Jersey. Why was it built in Mahwah? What were the College, its students, and faculty like? How did it impact the development of Mahwah?
Opened 2019, closed 2022. Portions of the exhibit are currently on display at the Ramapo College Peter Mercer Learning Commons.
Revealed: Women’s Fight for the Right to Vote
The Mahwah Museum’s previous exhibit, “Revealed: Women’s Fight for the Right to Vote” is a revealing look at the final decade’s toughest battles undertaken by women, several from New Jersey and New York, to win this right.
Opened 2020, closed 2022.
Palisades Amusement Park – In Miniature
The Palisades Amusement Park miniature depicts the legendary park as it would have looked in the mid 1930s. The scale of this model is 1:12, a common dollhouse scale.
Opened 2021, closed June 2024.
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Ramapough– Legacy and Heritage
The Ramapough Lenape people have a long and complex history in the Ramapo River Valley communities of Mahwah, Ringwood, and Hillburn. Explore and learn about this Indigenous people’s history, folklore, art, craft, tools, herbs and medicines, costume, and culture.
Opened 2021, closed June 2024.
YOU ARE HERE! 150 years of Mahwah Train and Town History in Film and Pictures
YOU ARE HERE is a trip back in time where visitors will explore the growth of Mahwah’s downtown area during the past two centuries, thanks in part to the addition of a simple railroad stop. Few realize the impact that the railroad had on the growth of local New Jersey communities. In the past 200 years, the downtown area (or town center) of Mahwah has grown from a few farms and orchards to an integral part of the town.
Opened 2021, Closed June 2025.
10 Mahwah Stories Told By Everyday Objects
Each of the items included in this exhibit tells one fascinating Mahwah story. There are many more to be told in future exhibits. In selecting these items we sought to provide a sense of Mahwah’s many neighborhoods, its famers, gentlemen, workers and communities.
Opened 2024, closed June 2025.
A Retrospective Look, The Sculpture of Judith Peck
“My work is about people. But also women and family: how they look, how they act; how they endure hardship and celebrate joy. The landscape of people is a dramatic terrain, full of vitality, often funny, sometimes sad, but like the weather, always changing. I change too as I search about, trying to make sense of it all.” – Judith Peck
Opened 2024, closed June 2025.
The Lee Vold Gallery’s Performance!
This Lee Vold exhibit provides a look into Lee’s personal interest in and involvement with theatre. A significant amount of Lee Vold’s photographic collection was devoted to Mahwah’s community theatre group, “Small Town & Fancy Players.”
Opened 2023, Closed 2025.
