NJPAC
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) features the world's greatest stars and New Jersey's top talent performing dance, music, and theater year-round. NJPAC also hosts hundreds of special events and is home to a nationally recognized arts education program. NJPAC held its world premiere in October 1997, after a decade of planning and a $187 million capital campaign. Since that time it has welcomed more than 3.5 million visitors.
Newark Museum
The Newark Museum, New Jersey's largest museum, features 80 galleries of world-class collections showcasing the arts and natural sciences. Exhibits of American, Asian, African, and classical art complement the museum’s mini zoo, planetarium, sculpture garden, and Victorian Ballantine House, a National Historic Landmark that lets visitors experience another era. Museum shops and a café complete the visit.
Prudential Center
Prudential Center is the cornerstone in the revitalization and renaissance of downtown Newark. In addition to the arena, Newark will soon add scores of condominiums, restaurants, themed bars, and mixed retail establishments. Prudential Center will be recognized among the finest arenas in the country and is New Jersey’s home for hockey, college basketball, professional basketball, concerts, family shows and special events. A public / private partnership between the City of Newark and Devils Arena Entertainment, made the $375 million Prudential Center a reality that is changing the face of downtown Newark and making it a destination place for sports and live entertainment in the region.
Symphony Hall
Newark Symphony Hall, New Jersey's oldest and largest showcase for the arts, today features acclaimed performances of R&B, musical theater, jazz, dance, film screenings, and more. Originally built as the Salaam Temple in 1925 by the Shriners, a Masonic order, the hall also has been home to performances of opera, symphony, ballet, and countless popular artists over the past eight decades.
Saved from demolition in the mid-1970s by the City of Newark and a coalition of concerned citizens and corporations, the multi-use facility today includes a 2,800-seat main hall named for Newark’s own Sarah Vaughan, a 1,000 seat-auditorium/banquet hall, a 200-seat black box theatre, a dance studio, and premier office and leasing space.
Saved from demolition in the mid-1970s by the City of Newark and a coalition of concerned citizens and corporations, the multi-use facility today includes a 2,800-seat main hall named for Newark’s own Sarah Vaughan, a 1,000 seat-auditorium/banquet hall, a 200-seat black box theatre, a dance studio, and premier office and leasing space.
Downtown
Photos courtesy of downtownnewark.com
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