Newark Museum

Founded in 1909 by John Cotton Dana, the Newark Museum is dedicated to art, science and industry and features 80 galleries of American, Asian, African and classical art. It is home to the largest collection of Tibetan art in the western hemisphere, one of the leading collections of American modernism in the country and the Ballantine House — a restored 1885 Victorian mansion that was once the home of the Ballantine brewing family. The museum complex also houses the Victoria Hall of Science, the Alice and Leonard Dreyfuss Planetarium, the Billy Johnson Auditorium, the Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden, an authentic schoolhouse from 1784, and the Newark Fire Museum.