The Newark Museum, established as the largest New Jersey museum, invites you to enjoy unforgettable experiences in the arts and natural sciences. Take an inspirational journey through 80 galleries of world-class collections including American, Asian, African and Classical.

Experience another era in the Victorian Ballantine House—a National Historic Landmark. Enjoy our exciting science collections and space travel in our popular planetarium. Stroll through our beautiful sculpture garden, visit our museum shops and enjoy a delicious lunch or snack at our café.

The Newark Museum’s permanent collections have served as launching pads to the wonders of art and science, including: American Art, Ancient Art, Arts of Native North America, Arts of Africa, Arts of Asia, Decorative Arts and Natural Science. Newark Museum – 100 Years. Always New.

Exhibits

Patchwork: from Folk Art to Fine Art
09.13.2011 - 12.31.2011

Masterpiece Quilts
Since purchasing its first quilt in 1918, the Museum’s has amassed one of the most comprehensive quilt collections in the nation, both stylistically and historically, consisting of more than 150 pieces today. Patchwork from Folk Art to Fine Art tracks the evolution of quilts—from functional masterpieces of women’s folk art to self-conscious artworks intended for display rather than practical purposes. Many have never been on public view before.

The exhibition features more than two dozen quilts, some created with powerful graphic designs pieced together from geometric patches of silk, wool or cotton, while other are more complex works of narrative folk art, filled with appliqué motifs and embroidered enrichment.

Accompanying this exhibition is The Global Art of Patchwork: Africa and Asia, showcasing work of patchwork traditions outside the world of quilts, also drawn from the Museum’s holdings.

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