 Main Building of the Newark Museum The Newark Museum has exhibits on science, natural history, art, and archeology. Its extensive collections of American art include works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John Singer Sargent, Frederick Church, Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Joseph Stella and Frank Stella.
The museum was organized in 1909 by master Newark librarian John Cotton Dana. The kernel of the museum was a collection of Japanese prints, silks, and porcelains assembled by a Newark pharmacist.
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. Since then, the museum has expanded several times, to the south into the former YMCA, to the north into the 1885 Ballantine House, and to the west into a brand-new Michael Graves addition.
Much of the Newark Museum is dedicated to science. It includes a mini-zoo with over 100 live animals, a planetarium, and a natural history section.
The Newark Museum's Tibetan galleries are considered among the best in 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.
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