Silvia Fantoni
Deputy Director of Learning and Engagement at The Newark Museum of Art - Newark, NJ, US
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Eighty galleries house the Newark Museum's permanent collection. The Museum complex also includes the 1885 Ballantine House, a restored National Historic Landmark; the Victoria Hall of Science; The Alice and Leonard Dreyfuss Planetarium; the Junior Museum; the Billy Johnson Auditorium; the Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden; an authentic Schoolhouse from 1784; and the Newark Fire Museum.\\The Newark Museum's distinguished art collections are international in scope and importance, and include 18th- to 20th-century American Painting and Sculpture; an important collection of Decorative Arts including the nation's most acclaimed collection of pots; the Arts of Africa, the Americas and the Pacific; a world-renowned Asian Art collection, including a Tibetan Buddhist altar consecrated by His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama; Classical Antiquities, representing Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman societies and an unparalleled collection of ancient glass; and one of the few Numismatic collections on public view in this country. A permanent Natural Science Gallery including changing exhibition space opened November 2002.