grounds for sculpture hamilton township, nj

Dubbed Grounds For Sculpture, the 42-acre garden and arboretum at any given time contains around 400 pieces of contemporary sculpture, all tucked improbably between warehouses in Hamilton’s industrial district on what used to be the New Jersey State Fairgrounds. They appear with increasing, unexpected regularity as you drive through, culminating in the town's coup de grace: a huge, interactive outdoor museum. Located a short drive south of Princeton in the section of Jersey whose eye-popping greenery serves as a direct rebuttal to all the smokestack stereotypes that come to outsiders' minds when they think of the Garden State, roadside sculptures dot the highway as you approach the idyllic town. Sculpture work is built into Hamilton’s outdoors everywhere you look, from the I-95 to the main public library. But in Hamilton, New Jersey, you don’t have to visit so sterile an environment as a museum to experience the town’s art-it’ll come to you.

You can’t look at the artwork from up close.

Art museums are, in theory, excellent places to go learn about art, but they’re not the most accessible to people who… don’t already know a lot about art.

Grounds for sculpture hamilton township, nj