Since 2021, InfoAge Science and History Museums in Wall Township has joined over 200 libraries, schools, museums, parks, and makerspaces across the state to celebrate the annual NJ Makers Day. The event returns to InfoAge, bigger and better, over the weekend of March 15 and 16, 2025.
Volunteers representing Garden State Central Railroads, the Military Technology Museum, NJ Antique Radio Club, Vintage Computer Federation, NJ Historical Divers, the InfoAge Space Exploration Center, the Computer Deconstruction Laboratory, and the InfoAge Education Committee will again offer over a dozen free hands-on activities suitable for all ages. Each activity relates to a museum theme, including shipwrecks, computer history, railroad history, communications, astronomy, radar, World War I, II, and the Cold War.
In previous years, visitors engaged with diorama building, laser cutting, cartesian divers, gardening, crypto coding, circuit building, constructing an eclipse viewer, coding on 1980s era computers, various design challenges, and presentations by student hackathon winners from Freehold Regional high schools. Every year there’s something different and new at InfoAge– and at Makers Day!
Free Makers Day activities will run during regular museum hours, from 12 noon to 5 PM, in the Marconi Hotel Dining Hall at 2201 Marconi Road the weekend of March 15 and 16, 2025.
Visitors are also encouraged to tour InfoAge’s 20 museums and exhibits with discounted admission over Makers Day weekend. Many museums will offer additional special hands-on projects in their spaces.