What are the opening hours?

Wednesday 10am - 3pm Thursday 10am - 3pm Saturday 1pm - 4pm

IECC / Casa Colombo

Name: IECC / Casa Colombo
Address: 380 Monmouth Street, Jersey City, NJ, 07302, US
Telephone: +12012229317
Price range: $$

Home
United States
Jersey City, NJ
IECC / Casa Colombo

Jersey City's Premier Italian Educational & Cultural Center, Gallery and Events Space
501(c)(3) Nonprofit
CURRENT SHOW: Peter Delman's 'Moonscapes'

08/26/2026

JOINING the Italian Educational & Cultural Center TOMORROW evening as our guest teacher in Conversational Italian for the Young Professionals networking event is Mr. Eric Lavin!

Eric has ten years experience teaching Italian in the West Caldwell Public School District. He previously taught at North Arlington High School and Morristown High School, and has a Masters Degree in Italian Language and Culture from Columbia University.

He also serves as the Coordinator of the Italian Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Newark since 2022, the first layperson to hold that position.

The IECC Young Professionals Network is a series of events and mixers geared towards the younger generations in their 20s, 30s and 40s looking to either make headway on their careers, or keep their best networking fresh and relevant.

Come join us for our final summer night of the season - featuring a brief intro to conversational Italian, plus our usual nibbles and drinks - tomorrow, August 27th from 6:00PM to 8:00PM.

This event is open to all who live within the Jersey City or New York Metropolitan area and beyond!

IECC Members go FREE, and Non-members may attend for the admission price of $10. Please RSVP at and share the ticket link in the comments with anyone you think might be interested - and we hope to see you there! 🙌🏼

08/15/2026

Ninety years ago next month - after writing to the Bricklayers, Masons & Plasterers Union of Wayne Street, Jersey City in September 1936 - Casa Colombo Secretary Joseph Zampella secured a force of laborers that worked (for free!) on the historic construction of our beloved building.

Here is a photo of the day our local ancestors, Italians and non-Italians alike, banded together to break ground at 380 Monmouth Street. Immortalized forever in the fantastic photographic artistry of a bygone era.

Stay tuned for more of these historical posts this month and next as we dig through the archives of the Italian Educational & Cultural Center at Casa Colombo.

📸 Original photo and documentation donated by Jeannine Zampella and family, in memory of her grandfather.

08/07/2026

OUR NEXT ART SHOW on view at the Italian Educational & Cultural Center at Casa Colombo between August 22nd and October 24th 2026 is ‘MOONSCAPES’ — an exhibition featuring the captivating work of long time Jersey City artist Peter Delman.

Poets describe the moon as "envious" and a "ghostly galleon". The physical features of the moon have persisted throughout human history - same as it ever was. Yet it has inspired fantastical myths and wildly creative interpretations in all cultures. These paintings draw energy from the richness of both physical and metaphysical sources.

Light refreshments will be served at the ARTIST RECEPTION on Saturday, September 19th between 1pm and 3pm.

RSVP for FREE at the link in the comments, and come join us as we journey into these late summer days and autumn afternoons with a dreamy disposition, showcasing a series of artworks bringing both a spark of magic and celestial ruminations to the months ahead. 💫

08/06/2026

One for the books! Our ‘Big Night’ Dinner & Film Screening on Sunday, July 26th saw the rounding off of a beautiful five-month-long season of special programming in conjunction with our hit traveling exhibition ‘Louis Prima: Rediscovering A Musical Icon’. 🎺🎶

Little did our dinner guests know however, seated along their Tuscan tables mirrored to the very ones in the film itself, they were celebrating much more than the end of our exhibition. This year also marks the 30th Anniversary of this classic Italian foodie film starring Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, and many other famous faces!

Surrounded by Louis Prima’s personal artifacts for the duration of the screening, IECC also realized we'd brought a little bit of Louis Prima himself to the ‘Big Night’ dinner for the first time in the film’s legacy. Because if you know the plot yourself, whether or not Mr. Prima shows up to the dinner is fairly central to the film’s narrative. In that sense, we might have accidentally made a little history this summer… 😉

We would now like to applaud the following people and businesses for making this wonderful dinner and screening a real success:

Renato’s Restaurant of Jersey City Heights for their phenomenal food, co-founder Nonna Anita Apruzzese for her authentic timballo, Linda & Joe Consolazio of the Gia Maione Prima Foundation for being our most excellent special guests, and of course Juan, Seliva and Tarun of Top Waiter Catering & Staffing Services… for making our afternoon truly shine with their epic professionalism. 🎺🎶

Thank you once again to the Gia Maione Prima Foundation, the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles (IAMLA) and the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs for making all of this possible on our eastern shores.

08/05/2026

We’re back at it again for August! This time with a little Italo-twist! 🥂🇮🇹

The Italian Educational & Cultural Center at Casa Colombo invites you to our next installment of the IECC Young Professionals Network - a series of events and mixers geared towards the younger generations in their 20s, 30s and 40s looking to either make headway on their careers, or keep their best networking fresh and relevant.

Come join us for our final summer night of the season - featuring a brief intro to conversational Italian, plus our usual nibbles and drinks - on Thursday, August 27th from 6:00PM to 8:00PM.

This event is open to all who live within the Jersey City or New York Metropolitan area and beyond!

IECC Members go FREE, and Non-members may attend for the admission price of $10. Please RSVP at the ticket link in the comments, or share it with anyone you think might be interested - and we hope to see you there! 🙌🏼

08/01/2026

Last Thursday, July 23rd saw our latest installment of IECC’s Young Professionals Networking & Mixer event! Featuring classic card games, impromptu musical jam sessions, excellent mingling and more!

We’re so thrilled to have had you all grace our galleries with your multiple talents, epic enthusiasm and smiling faces.

New friends and old pals, stay tuned! We’re just a few days away now from announcing the next one... 🥂

📸 7 / 9 - Jordan Coll & Dan Israel
📸 8 / 10 - Nick Cozzarelli

07/23/2026

DID YOU KNOW? The Italian Educational & Cultural Center has published several books over the years!

Pick up ‘Casa Colombo: A Constant Dynamic Presence in Jersey City’ for the full story behind IECC - its founding, its history, its people, and the role it played as a center of Italian culture and education in Jersey City.

Or check out ‘Six Who Made a Difference’ - for profiles on six remarkable Italian Americans whose contributions shaped their communities and left a lasting mark on the region’s history!

Currently on sale on our website, or when you visit us in person, we also offer bundle deals when you buy both of them together online.

Click the purchase link in the comments, or ask us for more details the next time you’re downtown for a visit! 🇮🇹

07/20/2026

THIS THURSDAY the Italian Educational & Cultural Center at Casa Colombo invites you to the IECC Young Professionals Network! Our series of events and mixers geared towards the younger generations in their 20s, 30s and 40s looking to either make headway on their careers, or keep their best networking fresh and relevant.

This event is open to all who live within the Jersey City or New York Metropolitan area and beyond!

Come join us for our first summer night of the season - featuring games, nibbles and drinks - this Thursday, July 23rd from 6:00PM to 8:00PM.

IECC Members go FREE, and Non-members may attend for the admission price of $10. Please RSVP at and share the ticket link in the comments with anyone you think might be interested - and we hope to see you there! 🙌🏼

07/18/2026

So you’ve been to the Italian Educational & Cultural Center at Casa Colombo… But do you know THE REAL STORY behind the building and founding members that helped shape IECC into the museum, gallery and cultural organization that it’s known as today? 🇮🇹

Of course it’s a full century’s worth of incredibly rich history. One that began on the backs of hard-working Italian immigrant laborers and architects in 1936, a tale of a communal hall and Italian language school that had fallen into disrepair by the mid-20th century.

It’s the story of a dormant space that was revived in the 1980s and purchased in 1992 by a new chapter of visionary Italian Americans looking to preserve their heritage and social services for their vibrant local community.

Casa Colombo is an historical epicenter integral to the fabric of Jersey City’s Italian Village - one that was even threatened by developers before the turn of the millennium. Oh yes, we have one of those tales in our archives too.

Local Italians and Italian Americans have saved our building time and time again, and they will continue to do so as we mark our one-hundredth year anniversary in 2036.

Over the upcoming month of August, we’ll be diving deep into the IECC archives to bring you a short series of posts, featuring snippets of the history of our organization right here on our social media. We hope you’ll join us as we meet the faces and founders behind the Italian Educational & Cultural Center at Casa Colombo. 🇮🇹

Address

380 Monmouth Street
Jersey City, NJ
07302

Opening Hours

Wednesday	10am - 3pm
Thursday	10am - 3pm
Saturday	1pm - 4pm

Telephone

+12012229317

Website

http://www.casacolombo.org/, https://louisprimajerseycity.eventbrite.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when IECC / Casa Colombo posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Museum

Send a message to IECC / Casa Colombo:

Want your museum to be the top-listed Museum in Jersey City?