Newark Museum of Art

The Newark Museum will conceptualize and develop a new Exploration Center, a space that will engage new and traditional audiences in a process of learning enhanced through use of touchable objects, hands-on activities, and interactive interpretive approaches. The museum will design and evaluate interactive programming for these spaces that will make use of the museum’s teaching collection of touchable objects, and design and fabricate a new physical ‘launching point’ space called the Touch Base, intended to provide visitors with resources to connect with collection objects and the rest of the museum. The results of this project will guide the museum’s future programming design and establish a culture of visitor-centered learning.