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Founded in 1909 by famed museologist John Cotton Dana, the Newark Museum is an institution dedicated to art, science and education and the largest museum in the State of New Jersey. Eighty galleries house the Museum’s distinguished collections, which are international in scope and span six thousand years, from antiquity to the present day. They include one of the finest collections of American art in the country; a world-renowned Asian arts collection, including the most significant collection of Tibetan art in the West; extensive holdings of Decorative Arts, some of which are displayed in the Museum’s 1885 Ballantine House; classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece and Rome; as well as important collections of African and Native American art. In addition to its global art holdings, the Newark Museum is home to the largest natural science collection in the state and the Dreyfuss Planetarium. For more information, please visit The Newark Museum Web site at www.newarkmuseum.org.