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Archaeology and Ethnology
Learn about New Jersey's American Indians and their 11,000-year history. Highlights of the collection include a dugout canoe, tools, weapons, clothing and 2000-year-old copper beads. Visit Africa, pre-Columbian South America or an unfamiliar place in New Jersey through changing exhibitions that explore the world.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
New Sweden:
Past and Present
Opens January 24, 2009 – closes 17 May 2009
Main Building – 3rd Floor Mezzanine Gallery
Organized by the American Swedish Historical Museum in Philadelphia, the Delaware Historical Society in Wilmington and the New Jersey State Museum, the exhibition will trace the history of the New Sweden Colony from 1638 to 1655 in the lower Delaware River Valley and the cultural continuance of the Swedish-American presence in the area into the 21st century. Included in the exhibition will be archaeological evidence of the Indians encountered by the Swedish colonists and the relationships they developed, early Swedish material culture and religious mission, physical and cultural survivals of the Swedish presence and contemporary relations between Sweden and the area today.
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Cultural History
The State Museum collects, preserves and interprets objects that help document and describe the existence of people who have lived in New Jersey from the 17th century to the present.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Culture in Context:
A Tapestry of Expression
Open now – closes January 11, 2009
Main Building – 2nd Floor Galleries
Wherever people share a sense of identity, culture and community emerge. In New Jersey traditional cultures from around the world have taken root and flourish, each distinctive in its manner of expression yet linked in the human desire to create beauty and find meaning in all aspects of the life experience. The exhibition brings together these diverse traditions - ethnic, regional and occupational - to provide visitors with an exciting opportunity to learn about the peoples and cultures that make New Jersey home. All claim distinctive artistic traditions, from African-American doll making and Cambodian court dance to needlework and weaving from around the world.
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Fine Art
The State Museum has collected over 12,000 works of art including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture and photographs. This collection focuses on American art and highlights the work of New Jersey artists in that story.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
The World Around Us
Open now – closes 7 December 2008
Main Building – 3rd Floor Mezzanine Gallery
Artists have long found inspiration in the world they inhabit. Nature and the world created by man are traditional subjects, and The World Around Us presents works showing these subjects as recorded or imagined by artists. The paintings, prints and sculpture on view in the exhibition include works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Milton Avery, John James Audubon, BJO Nordfeldt, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, April Gornik, Max Weber, Stella Waitzkin and Patricia Lay, among others.
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Natural History and Planetarium
Journey through the millennia and discover the beginning of New Jersey in geologic time. Wander the worlds of New Jersey's dinosaurs, of Ice Age mammals and of wildlife today. Explore New Jersey's highlands, piedmont cities and farms, the coastal plain and seashore, and then soar through the skies in the Museum's modern, spacious planetarium, featuring the Minolta MS-10 instrument that projects more than 6,000 stars through precision lenses.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Come Into the New World:
Linnaeus and America
Now open – closes 4 January 2009
Galleries at 225 West State Street
This exhibition celebrates the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who gave us the first method for scientifically naming and classifying plants and animals. Much of Linnaeus' information about the New World natural history came from the early Swedish settlement in New Jersey. This exhibition will highlight animals, plants, fossils and minerals he studied and named from specimens sent to him from New Jersey and adjacent areas by Pehr Kalm.
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1/21/2009
School Day Performance
Presented with Young Audiences
New Jersey
Seth Reichgott:
Chariot of the Sun
Ages: 3-8; 11:00 AM (60 minutes); Auditorium; free
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Meet the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology!
Actor Seth Reichgott, using poetry, masks, mime and
skillful audience participation, brings these classic stories to
life.
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Included are the myth of Phaethon and his chariot,
Pandora and her mysterious box, and the exciting tale of
Odysseus and Cyclops. It's a dynamic presentation that
offers a fun and accessible introduction to the stories
of ancient Greece.
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