With 18 scenic miles of coastline, the Long Beach Island region is the ideal location for your next New Jersey vacation. Historic landmarks, galleries and museums, and other rich cultural offerings complement the region's fine dining, shopping, and natural beauty.

What to Do

Surflight Theatre

Surflight Theatre provides high-quality professional live theatre to LBI and Southern New Jersey while providing training to young theatre performers and technicians. It employs professionals and early career artists for Broadway-style productions 7 months of the year. Their Children's Theatre provides entertainment for ages 2-10 to promote a lifelong interest in the performing arts. Their Show Place Ice Cream Parlour features singing Waitri in an indoor parlour. Broadway at the beach since 1950.
Engleside and Beach Aves, Beach Haven – (609) 492-9477

LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences

The Foundation provides Ocean County residents and visitors opportunities including classes, lectures, performances, and gallery exhibitions. They offer a “Series at Seven” — concerts of vocalists, instrumentalists and bands, and a gallery showcasing new directions in the visual arts and exhibiting internationally known talented local artists, free and open to the public year-round.
120 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach Township – (609) 494-1241

Lighthouse International Film Festival

The annual June festival, founded by a collection of film industry professionals, offers three days of films, panels, Q&As, networking, and parties for film enthusiasts. 
Venues throughout LBI

m.t.burton gallery & 19th St. Clay Studio

In addition to exhibiting pottery, sculpture, painting, and photography by national and regional artists, this gallery offers pottery classes in its studio and sells the work of more than two dozen local artists.
1819 North Long Beach Boulevard, Surf City – (609) 494-0006

Solace Studio + Gallery

Solace showcases artworks of various styles and media including oil + acrylic paintings, mixed media + collage, found object assemblage sculptures, and fiber arts pieces. While their focus is on coastal imagery, we also feature still life, abstract, and pop art to suit all tastes. The artists are local to the Jersey Shore and New England areas. They host artist receptions and show openings, and community events throughout the summer season.
2312 Long Beach Blvd. Surf City – (609) 848-9702

Firefly Gallery

Gallery of the artist-owner’s works as well as outside artists’ exhibitions. Also offers classes and workshops. The exterior of the building itself is an art marvel.
15 N Long Beach Blvd, Surf City – (609) 361-7700

SwellColors Glass Studio

SwellColors features custom stained glass windows and original surf- and nature-inspired works, in addition to offering workshops such as stained glass window making, glass bead-making, fusing, and mosaics.
1715 Long Beach Boulevard, Surf City – (609) 494-7600

Museum of NJ Maritime History

This museum displays marine artifacts, including rare documents, antique navigational equipment, and more than 10,000 rare and historic photographs and artifacts spanning more than 100 hundred years of maritime history.
528 Dock Road, Beach Haven, (609) 492-0202

Tuckerton Seaport

This recreated seaport village was established to preserve, present, and interpret the rich maritime history, artistry, heritage, and environment of the shore and the unique contributions of its baymen. 
120 West Main Street, Tuckerton - (609) 296-8868

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