Upcoming Events

Fall Pumpkin Festival

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Pumpkin Painting, Face Painting & Fun

Come join the fun for pumpkin painting and light refreshments

Sunday, October 19, 2025

Photograph of child and large pumpkin on window ledge

NUTLEY NJ -- Paint Your Real Pumpkin. All are welcome. Fun for children and families. The pumpkin festival is free. Step up for a tour of our second floor museum artifacts. Hosted by The Nutley Historical Society at Nutley Museum, 65 Church Street, Nutley, N.J.

 

A Saturday Morning of Classic Christmas Cartoons and Films

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The Nutley Museum Presents . . . 

A Saturday Morning of Classic Christmas Cartoons and Films on December 6, 2025

The Nutley Historical Society is pleased to announce a special showing of old-time Christmas cartoons and short films at the Nutley Museum on the morning of Saturday, December 6, 2025 from 9:00 – 11:00 AM. 

Saturday, December 6, 2025
9:00 – 11:00 AM
The Nutley Museum
65 Church Street
Nutley, New Jersey 07110
Admission is free
Light refreshments will be served

The program will include Christmas short films from the 1930s – 1950s that include “The Little Drummer Boy,” “A Christmas Dream” and “The Night Before Christmas,” as well as classic cartoons like “The Christmas Visitor” and “The Little King Christmas Night.” The showing will also include “The Little Match Girl,” an immortal cartoon from 1937. 

This program is suitable for children, but all Nutleyites are invited to attend. Admission is free. 

The Gary and Zeny Erbe Old-Time Film Festival

The showing marks an installment of The Gary and Zeny Erbe Old-Time Film Festival, a film series held at the Nutley Museum. All events feature films that were donated to the Nutley Museum by Nutley residents Gary and Zeny Erbe. Gary Erbe, a world-renowned painter who lives in Nutley, collected all the antique films that will be shown and recently had them transferred to DVDs.

Future events in the The Gary and Erbe Old-Time Film Festival will be announced.

For more information, contact Barry Lenson, Nutley Museum Art Historian at (973) 715-2691 or barrylenson@gmail.com