Art Museums and Galleries in New Jersey - Art Galleries in New Jersey, Art Museums in New Jersey, Arts Centers in New Jersey (Paperback)

Chapters: Art Galleries in New Jersey, Art Museums in New Jersey, Arts Centers in New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Newark Museum, Jersey City Museum, Albus Cavus, Aids Museum, Firehouse Gallery, Grounds for Sculpture, Waterhouse Museum, Wheatonarts, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Shore Institute for Contemporary Art. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The New Jersey State Museum is located at 205 West State Street in Trenton, New Jersey, United States, overlooking the Delaware River. The Museum is operated as part of the New Jersey Department of State. General admission is free. The Museum's main collection of artifacts and fine art dates back to items collected in the early 1800s. The Museum also includes a 150-seat planetarium and a 380-seat auditorium. The Museum's replica of a Hadrosaurus a specimen unearthed in Haddonfield in 1858 that was selected as the state's official dinosaur in 1991 was the target of a renovation project in the late 1990s to correct a display that had been on exhibit since the 1930s. The replica's original skull, a model created as a substitute because the actual skull was not preserved, was to be replaced with the narrower skull of another duck-billed dinosaur. The New Jersey State Museum serves a broad region between New York and Philadelphia. Because the Museums general admission is free and all programs are free or offered at a very low-cost, the Museum is accessible to visitors with low- to moderate incomes. The New Jersey State Museum, located in Trenton, New Jersey, was the first state museum in the country established with education as a primary focus of its mission. The New Jersey Legislature formally established the Museum by law in 1895; the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=19175121