As when it was founded in Mount Holly in 1860, the Burlington County Lyceum is a forum for ideas and a home for culture, technology, and natural history. It provides opportunities for individuals of all ages to learn and enhance, enrich, and improve their own lives and, in doing so, make positive contributions to their communities.
The Lyceum has been reimagined as a living museum, and it will become more so over the course of 2025 as its permanent exhibitions make their debut. The rooms of what was once an elegant Greek Revival home—the Langstaff Mansion, built in 1830—will transform into illuminating exhibition galleries. These galleries will show and tell the stories of people who have lived on the land that is now Burlington County, of the environment that shaped their ways of life, and of the people, businesses, and local governments that have worked to preserve and develop the land over time.
The first completed is what’s shown above and below: a front-parlor with furniture, art, decorative objects, and a hand-painted frieze, carpet,
and draperies in keeping with the Langstaff Mansion’s Greek Revival architecture.
Courtesy of the Burlington County Lyceum of History and Natural Sciences, Mount Holly, New Jersey. Text: Matthew F. Singer, PhD; Photos: Anthony Jacobsen; Graphic Design: Nathanael Roesch, PhD
