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