Company Profile
Company Overview
The Newark Museum operates, as it has since its founding, in the public trust as a museum of service, and a leader in connecting objects and ideas to the needs and wishes of its constituencies. We believe that our art and science collections have the power to educate, inspire and transform individuals of all ages, and the local, regional, national and international communities that we serve. In the words of founding Director John Cotton Dana, "A good museum attracts, entertains, arouses curiosity, leads to questioning—and thus promotes learning."
Company History
Founded in 1909, the Museum is the largest art, science and education museum in the state of New Jersey, serving more than 300,000 children, adults and families through exemplary exhibitions and innovative school and public programs on-site, off-site and online. The Museum’s collections have achieved national and international renown in areas such as American painting and sculpture; decorative arts; the arts of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific; African-American art; Asian art, including the most important collection of Tibetan art in the West; classical art; the Victorian-era National Historic Landmark Ballantine House; and the largest natural science collection in NJ, which is showcased in the Victoria Hall of Science. Additional facilities and resources include the new Makerspace at the Newark Museum, which features cutting edge, hands-on technology that highlights the art/science nexus; the Alice and Leonard Dreyfuss Planetarium, which utilizes the latest digital technology to engage young people in space science; SKYLAB, a traveling digital planetarium; a teaching collection; the Newark Fire Museum; and the 1784 Old Stone Schoolhouse.