The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is located on the Voorhees Mall

Voorhees Mall

Voorhees Mall is a large grassy area with stately shade trees on a block of about 28 acres located on the College Avenue Campus of Rutgers University near downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey. An eclectic mix of architectural styles, Voorhees Mall is lined by many historic academic buildings...

 of the campus of Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

 in New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Brunswick, New Jersey

New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. It is the county seat and the home of Rutgers University. The city is located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the population of...

. It was founded in 1966. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli was the mother of philanthropist Alan Voorhees

Alan Voorhees

Alan Manners Voorhees was a transportation engineer and urban planner who designed many large public works in the United States...

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Description

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, one of the largest and most distinguished university-based museums in the nation, is located on the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The Zimmerli Art Museum houses more than 60,000 works, including Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art from the acclaimed Dodge Collection, American art from the 18th-century to the present, and six centuries of European art with a particular focus on 19th-century French art. The Zimmerli is also noted for its strong holdings of works on paper, including prints, rare books, drawings, photographs, and original illustrations for children's books.

Throughout the year, the Zimmerli presents world-class exhibitions with an international focus. As an educational resource serving both the University community and audiences from New Jersey and beyond, the Zimmerli offers a lively array of programs for audiences of all ages. Elementary and secondary school teachers benefit from credit-giving training programs and interactive tours for their classes. Rutgers students and community members alike enjoy the monthly Art after Hours: First Wednesdays when the Zimmerli is open until 9pm with lectures, music and dance performances, exhibition tours, poetry slams, films, performance art and more. The Zimmerli houses the Museum Store and Café Z.The museum is large part of the Rutgers community. Many professors of the university take their students to the museum on class trips. In addition to becoming an educational aid The Zimmerli Art museum opens its doors free to the public the first Sunday of each month.

American Art

• Painting and Sculpture
• The Gordon Henderson Collection of American Stained Glass Design
• The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) Collection at Rutgers University
• The Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios (RAPS)
• The Rutgers Collection of Original Illustration's for Childrens Literature
• The Martin and Harriette Diamond Archives of American Art

European Art

• French Art, Late-Nineteenth to Early-Twentieth Centuries
• European Art, 1400 to the Present

Russian Art and Soviet Nonconformist Art

• The George Riabov Collection of Russian Art
• The Norton & Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (1956-1986)

  Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art

  Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art

  The Dodge Collection is the largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art in existence.The collection was amassed by an economics professor from the University of Maryland, Norton Dodge, from the late 1950s until the advent of Perestroika. The collection comprises roughly 20,000 works of art and...

  
  

Schimmel Rare Book Library

• The Herbert D. Schimmel and Ruth Schimmel Library of French Illustrated Books and Journals

External links

• Rutgers University
• Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum