Newark / New Jersey / United States
Newark Museum, founded in 1909, collects and exhibits monuments, sculptures, artifacts, paintings, pictures and maps. It offers more than 80 galleries of arts and sciences, gift shops, a zoo, planetarium, cafe, auditorium, sculpture garden, schoolhouse and the Ballantine House. The Asian collections preserved by the museum include Buddhist altar, ethnographic and ceremonial arts, ritual objects, dance masks, tents, saddles, netsuke, headdress and weapons. The exhibitions offered by the museum include metalwork, enamels, lacquer ware, wood and stone carvings and ceramics. In addition, it has a wide range of collections of textiles, furniture and architectural elements, and porcelain and pottery items. The museum organizes a variety of arts workshops, including beadworking, jewelrymaking, enameling, oil painting, drawing, and fiber, fabric and surface design and knitting. It is located in Newark, N.J.
