New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center The New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center and the Edison Arts Society Conference Center offer a wide variety of uses and services. With more than 150,000 square feet of exhibit space, it is New Jersey’s largest venue with the flexibility to host a myriad of both public and private events. From trade shows to banquets, special functions, and meetings this modern facility has full food service capabilities, broadband Internet connectivity and videoconferencing capabilities. Meeting packages can include overnight accommodations, dining, equipment rental and decorating services. National Historic Site New Jersey Edison National Historic Site is closed for major rehabilitation work. The Site plans to reopen sometime in 2005. For more than forty years, the laboratory created by Thomas Alva Edison in West Orange, New Jersey, had enormous impact on the lives of millions of people worldwide. Out of the West Orange laboratories came the motion picture camera, vastly improved phonographs, sound recordings, silent and sound movies and the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery. Edison National Historic Site provides a unique opportunity to interpret and experience important aspects of America's industrial, social and economic past, and to learn from the legacy of the world's best known inventor. Click on the "inDepth" Button to visit our expanded page for virtual tours, sound recordings, and more. Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum The Thomas A. Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum was built in 1937 and dedicated February 11, 1938 to commemorate Thomas Edison's 91 st birthday. Located at 37 Christie Street in the Menlo Park section of Edison. The Tower is located on the exact spot where Thomas Edison had his laboratory, the first modern Research and Development center in the world. While in Menlo Park, Edison received over 400 patents on items including the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph and the electric railroad car. His innovations at the site included wireless transmissions (nearly 20 years before Marconi), the carbon button transmitter (drastic improvements to telegraph and telephone technology), and the discovery of the Edison Effect, the foundation for the field of electronics. Thomas Edison remarked that some of his greatest triumphs were here. The Menlo Park Museum contains some of Edison's inventions and products from the Thomas A. Edison Company including a recently donated 1929 Edison 'Light-O-Matic' Radio. The Museum features memorabilia of our community's namesake and most famous citizen.