Newark Museum

Newark Museum
Newark Museum
Established 1909
Location 49 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Director Mary Sue Sweeney Price[1]
Public transit access Washington Park Station (Newark Light Rail)
Website newarkmuseum.org

The Newark Museum is the largest museum in New Jersey, USA. It holds fine collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world. Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Albert Bierstadt, Frederick Church, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Stella, Tony Smith and Frank Stella.

The Newark Museum's Tibetan galleries are considered among the best in the world. The collection was purchased from Christian missionaries in the early twentieth century. The Tibetan galleries have an in-situ Buddhist altar that the Dalai Lama has consecrated.

In addition to its extensive art collections, The Newark Museum is dedicated to natural science. It includes the Dreyfuss Planetarium and the Victoria Hall of Science which highlights some of the museum's 70,000 specimen Natural Science Collection.

The Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, located behind the museum, is the setting for community programs, concerts and performances. The garden is also home to a 1784 old stone schoolhouse and Fire Safety Center.

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History

Ballantine House
South building

The museum was organized in 1909 by master Newark librarian John Cotton Dana "to establish in the City of Newark, New Jersey, a museum for the reception and exhibition of articles of art, science, history and technology, and for the encouragement of the study of the arts and sciences." The kernel of the museum was a collection of Japanese prints, silks, and porcelains assembled by a Newark pharmacist.[2]

Originally located on the fourth floor of the Newark Public Library, the museum moved into its own purpose-built structure in the 1920s after a gift by Louis Bamberger. It was designed by Jarvis Hunt who also designed Bamberger's flagship Newark store.[3][4] Since then, the museum has expanded several times, to the south into the former YMCA, to the north into the 1885 Ballantine House, and in 1990, to the west into an existing acquired building. At that time much of the Museum, including the new addition, was redesigned by Michael Graves.

The Museum had a mini-zoo with small animals for some twenty years, until August 2010.[5]

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Coordinates: 40°44′34″N 74°10′18″W / 40.742651°N 74.171779°W / 40.742651; -74.171779

Footnotes

  1. ^ "The Newark Museum Makes Key Strategic Moves in Major Reorganization of Board" (press release). The Newark Museum. February 21, 2007.
  2. ^ Alexander 1995, p. 390.
  3. ^ Jarvis Hunt Buildings - math.uic.edu - Retrieved July 13, 2008
  4. ^ Alexander 1995, p. 399.
  5. ^ The Mini Zoo, Newark Museum website.

References

  • Alexander, Edward P. (1995-11-01). Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence. Rowman Altamira. ISBN 9780761991311. 

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