Hours
Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon–5 pm
Closed Mondays (except for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Presidents' Day), Tuesdays, New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving Day and December 25.
Barrier-free entrance, café service and restrooms available.
Suggested Museum Admission
Newark Residents are free
Adults: $10
Children, Seniors & Students with Valid I.D.: $6
Members: FREE
Planetarium Admission*
Adults $5; children under 12, seniors, and college students $3
Members: Adults $3; children under 12 $2
*In addition to the suggested museum admission
General Admission Discounts
AAA Adult: Two for the price of one ticket
AAA Senior/Child/Student: Two for the price of one ticket
The following receive FREE general admission:
(Planetarium admission not included)
- Museum Members
- ASTC
- ARMN Card Holders
- Channel 13 Card Holders
- NARM Card Holders
- NJN
- Residents of Newark, NJ
- Staff or Volunteers at other museums
- Employees of Corporate Underwriters
- receive free admission (one employee and up to 3 guests) to the Museum. Admission does NOT include the planetarium star shows
Museum Tours for Adults
The Newark Museum has an outstanding schedule of special exhibitions for your group to experience, as well as eighty galleries of nationally and internationally renowned permanent collections. Schedule one or more tours and enjoy a leisurely lunch at the Museum Cafe, where specially ordered gourmet box lunches can be arranged for groups. Also, plan to visit our Museum Shop, which has splendid gift items from around the world.
To schedule your adult group or to receive more information call Ebony Simpson at 973-596-6613 or send an e-mail to groupsales@newarkmuseum.org.
Newark Museum Shops
The Museum Shops offer a wide selection of gifts, jewelry and adaptations from museums around the world. Many are derived from objects in The Newark Museum’s collection or special exhibitions hosted by the Museum. Choose from hand-painted scarves to children’s activity books. All items have been carefully selected for their educational or historical value, or as quality items in keeping with the Museum’s mission of enhancing visitors’ appreciation of the visual arts. All profit from purchases directly supports The Newark Museum.
- Newark Museum Members receive 10% - 15% discounts at our Museum Shops.
- Museum Shop Hours:
Wednesday through Sunday Noon - 5pm
Hours are subject to change based on season and exhibitions.
About The Museum
The Newark Museum, established as the largest New Jersey museum, invites you to enjoy unforgettable experiences in the arts and natural sciences. Take an inspirational journey through 80 galleries of world-class collections including American, Asian, African and Classical.
Experience another era in the Victorian Ballantine House—a National Historic Landmark. Enjoy our exciting science collections and space travel in our popular planetarium. Stroll through our beautiful sculpture garden, visit our museum shops and enjoy a delicious lunch or snack at our café.
- "The place where Shangri-la and New Jersey meet. Staunch commitment to its diverse community and treasures from Tibet to Timbuktu make the Newark Museum a little corner of paradise."
-- Smithsonian Magazine
Mission Statement
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."
100 Years: Always New
In 2009, the Museum celebrated its 100th anniversary. Explore the Museum's evolution from two galleries at the top of the Newark Free Public Library to an eight-building campus as the largest New Jersey museum and art institution in the state through the historical online exhibition 100 Years: Always New.
Support
The Newark Museum, a not-for-profit museum of art, science and education, receives operating support from the City of Newark, the State of New Jersey, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State—a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey Cultural Trust, the Prudential Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the Victoria Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, and other corporations, foundations and individuals. Funds for acquisitions and activities other than operations are provided by members and other contributors.
Collections
Permanent Galleries
- African Art Galleries
- American Art Galleries
- Arts of Asia
- Classical Galleries
- Contemporary Art Galleries
- Decorative Arts
- Dreyfuss Memorial Garden
- Natural Science Galleries
Exhibitions:
Romare Bearden: Southern Recollections
May 23–August 19, 2012
Expanding Africa at the Newark Museum: New Visions, New Galleries
On View Through May 2013
Studio Glass: 1962-2012
February 15 -
The Teapot
Ongoing
Generation Fit: Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle
An Interactive Family Exhibit
Opens November 26, 2011
Red Luster: Lacquer & Leatherworks of Asia
Spans 2,000-year-old History
Ongoing
From Meiji to Modern: Japanese Art Goes Global, 19th to 21st Centuries
Ongoing
The Glitter and The Gold: Jewelry From the Newark Museum
Ongoing
The Lenox Legacy: America's Greatest Porcelain, 1889–2005
Ongoing
Present Tense: Arts of Contemporary Africa
Ongoing
