The Museums modern 30,000 square feet building is surrounded by the Colleges research farm. It contains permanent and changing exhibitions about the evolution of agriculture from New Jerseys first farmers, the Lenape Indians, to the present and future. The Museum maintains an extensive collection of historical agricultural artifacts second in importance and scope to that of the Smithsonian Institution. The Museum opened to the general public in 1990.
The Museum is centrally located off U.S. Route 1 South and College Farm Road in North Brunswick, on the campus of Cook College Rutgers University.