Barnegat Light Museum, opening for the season this weekend, will be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends through June, then Tuesday through Sunday through July and August, then back to weekends-only in September. The lush, meticulously well-maintained gardens are open dawn to dusk all year. Admission is free to peruse the museum’s many and varied collections.

Housed in Barnegat Light’s former one-room schoolhouse, which was established in 1902 and served the town until 1951, the museum was dedicated in 1954.