| Liberty Science Center is an interactive | | | | Learning and Teaching |
| science museum and learning center located in | | | | |
| Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New | | | | Also opening in July 2007 is the new Jennifer |
| Jersey. The center, which first opened in | | | | A. Chalsty Center for Science Learning and |
| 1993, has science exhibits, the nation's | | | | Teaching, a 20,000-square-foot facility |
| largest Dome IMAX theatre, numerous | | | | extending over the entire former Invention |
| educational resources and the original | | | | Floor of Liberty Science Center, with six |
| Hoberman sphere, a silver, computer-driven | | | | labs, a 150-seat theater and other resources |
| engineering/artwork. | | | | for teachers and students. Here educators can |
| | | | upgrade science teaching skills and find |
| Liberty Science Center's Expansion | | | | peers to help strengthen science instruction |
| | | | in the classroom, while students can |
| According to the Newark Star-Ledger Liberty | | | | participate in intense, multi-day or single |
| Science Center is currently undergoing a | | | | hour programs to ignite interest and skills |
| 22-month, $109 million expansion and renewal | | | | in science exploration. |
| project. Upon re-opening in mid-July 2007, | | | | |
| the expansion will add 100,000 ft² to the | | | | The Newark Museum is the largest museum in |
| facility, bringing it to nearly 300,000 ft. | | | | New Jersey. Despite its extensive and |
| | | | high-quality collection of art and |
| Replacing almost every exhibition in the | | | | archeological antiquities, it is often |
| building, the "new" Liberty Science Center's | | | | overshadowed by more famous museums in nearby |
| exhbitions include | | | | New York City. |
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| Skyscraper! Achievement and Impact - The | | | | The Newark Museum has exhibits on science, |
| largest exhibition on the subject in the | | | | natural history, art, and archeology. Its |
| world - with artifacts from the World Trade | | | | extensive collections of American art include |
| Center, a walk along an I-Beam two stories | | | | works by Hiram Powers, Thomas Cole, John |
| above the exhibition floor, an earthquake | | | | Singer Sargent, Frederick Church, Mary |
| shake table, and more. | | | | Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, |
| | | | Joseph Stella and Frank Stella. |
| Eat and Be Eaten - This exhibit of life | | | | |
| animals explores the predator-prey | | | | The museum was organized in 1909 by master |
| relationship, offering lots of live animals | | | | Newark librarian John Cotton Dana. The kernel |
| including deadly vipers, amazing pufferfish | | | | of the museum was a collection of Japanese |
| and scores of other creates. | | | | prints, silks, and porcelains assembled by a |
| | | | Newark pharmacist. |
| Communication Explores human communication in | | | | |
| four areas -- Body and Language; Symbols, | | | | Originally located on the fourth floor of the |
| Signs and Writing; Print, Audio and Video; | | | | Newark Public Library, the museum moved into |
| and Signals and Networks. | | | | its own purpose-built structure in the 1920s |
| | | | after a gift by Louis Bamberger. Since then, |
| Infection Connection - Helps guests | | | | the museum has expanded several times, to the |
| understand how individual actions can affect | | | | south into the former YMCA, to the north into |
| global health issues. | | | | the 1885 Ballantine House, and in 1990, to |
| | | | the west into a Michael Graves addition. |
| I explore - An age-restricted area, where | | | | |
| guests under six and their caregivers can | | | | Much of the Newark Museum is dedicated to |
| explore aspects of the world around them | | | | science. It includes a mini-zoo with over 100 |
| through water play, a large climbing | | | | live animals, the Dreyfuss Planetarium and |
| structure, a streetscape, and a rock | | | | the Victoria Hall of Science which highlights |
| xylophone - made from hanging rocks that ring | | | | some of the museum's 70,000 specimen Natural |
| like a bell when struck. | | | | Science Collection. |
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| Our Hudson Home - Teaches guests about the | | | | The Newark Museum's Tibetan galleries are |
| wildlife and ecology of the Hudson River. | | | | considered among the best in world. The |
| | | | collection was purchased from Christian |
| Some favorites from the old building remain | | | | missionaries in the early twentieth century. |
| in Wonder Why and Energy Quest. | | | | The Tibetan galleries have an in situ |
| | | | Buddhist altar that the Dalai Lama has |
| Jennifer A. Chalsty Center for Science | | | | consecrated. |