The Paterson Museum is located in Paterson, in Passaic County, NJ. Founded in 1925, it is owned and run by the city of Paterson with a mission to preserve and display the industrial history of Paterson.
The museum is housed in the Thomas Rogers Building on Market Street, the former erecting shop of the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works, a major 19th Century manufacturer of railroad steam locomotives. The company was founded in 1832 by Thomas Rogers with Morris Ketchum and Jasper Grosvenor and built its first locomotive in 1837. The operation was bought by Alco in 1905. The last locomotive was outshopped in 1913.