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Soar through the skies in the Museum’s spacious
Planetarium, featuring precision projection of more
than 6000 stars. The largest planetarium facility in
New Jersey. School presentations include a live tour
through our evening New Jersey Sky.
Planeatrium
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Subject Specific Programs
The New Jersey State Museum offers thirteen different
courses that are designed to provide smaller groups
of students with an interactive learning experience.
Students are able to ask questions, see real objects,
and learn from one of the Museum’s leading experts
in their fields. Enrich your students’ experience
by visiting one of the Museum’s many exhibitions.
Our Student Docent program offers free professionally
trained Docent Tours.
Natural
History programs dates and descriptions >>
Archaeology
programs dates and descriptions >>
Fine
Art programs dates and descriptions >>
Student Docent
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Throughout the year, the New Jersey State Museum offers
a wide variety of interactive educational
performances in our Auditorium. Come and experience
an “Auditorium Style” performance on the
New Jersey State Museum’s stage. Each performance
is linked to New Jersey Core Curriculum
Standards and compliments the Museum’s exhibits
and other program.
School
day performance dates and descriptions >>
Throughout the year, the New Jersey State Museum offers
a wide variety of interactive educational performances
in our Auditorium. School-day Performances compliment
the Museum’s exhibits and other programs.
Film
dates and descriptions >>
Join one of the Museum's Curator at noon on the first
Friday of every month for a gallery walk of one of the
current exhibitions.
Gallery
Walk dates and descriptions >>
Our staff’s expertise can help Girl and Boys
Scouts fulfill many of the requirements to earn their
Geology and Archaeology and Astronomy merit badge. Join
us for a day of Scouting fun and learn about these fascinating
subjects from the Museum’s professional, geologists,
paleontologists and archaeologists.
Merit
Badge dates and descriptions >>
The New Jersey State Museum offers ten opportunities
for teachers to participate in professional
development workshops. Each workshop is completely free
of charge and has been conveniently
scheduled on Thursday evenings starting at 5:00 pm
Workshop
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Distance Learning: Live Videoconferencing Lessons
With collections of more than 2 million objects in
the fields of paleontology, geology, archaeology, ethnology,
fine art, and cultural history combined with a staff
of experts, professors , educators, and research scientists,
the New Jersey State Museum will be able to offer teachers,
their students and groups of homeschoolers an outstanding
opportunity for distance learning via videoconferencing
technology. Learn about New Jersey’s treasures
from the experts that study them, and interact with
our Museum professionals in real-time, without ever
leaving your classroom. Please call (609) 292-6310 to
have someone speak with you about this amazing opportunity
that only the New Jersey State Museum can offer. $2/person.
Object Identification
Dependent on staffing resources and by appointment
only, the Archaeology/Ethnology, Cultural History, Fine
Art, and Natural History Bureaus will identify objects
or specimens brought in by students, teachers or the
public.
By appointment only; please call:
Archaeology/Ethnology: (609) 292-8594
Cultural History: (609) 292-5420
Fine Art: (609) 292-5420
Natural History: (609) 292-8954
Museum Materials for Classroom Use
Teachers may borrow a variety of rocks, fossils, minerals
shells, and insects from the Museum’s Natural
History collections for instructional purposes. Specimens
are gathered based upon individual requests. Insurance
is required. Call (609) 292-6310 for more information.
Traveling Exhibition Service
This self-contained teaching exhibit features seven
major forms of fossils in section one, and thirteen
chronologically-arranged New Jersey fossils in section
two. Teachers may borrow an exhibit for up to one month
at a time. Best displayed on a sturdy table at least
four feet long. The display is a luggage-type case that
weighs 60 lbs. and measures 12” x 22” x
38”. Call (609) 292-6310 for more information.
Program Scholarships and Bus Stipends
The New Jersey State Museum is pleased to be able to
continue to offer program scholarships and bus stipends
for the 2009/2010 academic year. Qualifying schools
will be eligible to receive a stipend to help defray
the cost of transportation to the Museum as well as
the possibility of having all of the program fees waived.
For an application or additional information, please
call: (609) 292-6310.
A Great Spot for Lunch!
School groups may choose to eat lunch at the Department
of State lunchroom next door to the Museum at 225 West
State Street. Lunch reservations are made by calling
the State House Tour Office at (609) 633-2709. On a
nice day, Capitol Plaza Park located between the State
House Annex and the State Library makes a wonderful
picnic setting in view of the Delaware River, the Golden
Dome of the State House, and a spectacular fountain.
Remember to leave the area as you found it by bringing
several heavy-duty trash bags!
Reservations
Call the Reservation office at (609) 292-6347 at least
two (2) weeks before your planned trip. Recommended
hours for calling are between 7:30 am and 4:30 pm. However
you may leave a message for a return call at any time
of the day. Remember school year is the busy season,
so have an alternate program and date in mind. Two programs
with lunch in between make a full day for most schools.
Schools may wish to supplement the Museum experience
with a visit to other attractions within convenient
walking distance of the Museum such as the State House
and the Old Barracks Museum.
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