The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts is a non-profit educational institution in Madison, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.

[5] The museum's building, designed by Boston architect Charles Brigham and his associate, Willard P. Adden,[6] is a prime example of Romanesque Revival; the building, a gift to the town of D. Willis James,[7] was completed in 1900, and was used as the town's library until the late 1960s when it was leased by the Lands as a site for the museum.

[4] The museum underwent an extensive renovation project in the 1990s, funded by a million-dollar fundraising effort, to bring the facility up to date in its century-old structure.

[4] As part of the renovation project, the museum received a $240,000 grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust towards interior restoration that would allow the public to appreciate the building's "most dramatic architectural features--groined vaulting, decorative stained glass and stenciling, fireplaces, handsome light fixtures and intricate woodwork" which had been hidden by architectural changes made over the intervening years since its construction a century earlier.

[9] The museum's most popular programs involve craftspeople — such as carpenters, coopers and blacksmiths — demonstrating the use of these tools in the performance of their professions.