{"id":2963,"date":"2009-04-23T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2019-10-27T23:28:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T03:28:45","slug":"newark-museum-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2963\/newark-museum-100th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Newark Museum To Party Hard for Its 100th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>What:<\/strong> Party Like It\u2019s 1909\u2014for 100 Hours<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ<\/p>\n<p><strong>When: <\/strong>Wednesday, April 22 through Sunday, April 26, 24 hours starting Wednesday at 10a.m.; click here for full schedule and times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why: <\/strong>Anyone who\u2019s ever read <em>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler <\/em>knows the answer to this question. Sure, it\u2019s not the Met, but does the Met offer a midnight flashlight tour (Saturday, April 25, 12:30a.m.)? Or a Sunday Jazz Brunch with the Duke Ellington Legacy Band? How about afternoon tea, dance lessons, laser light shows, art interpreted by actors? Sunday will also have a Centennial Ball with birthday cake and Dr. K&#8217;s Motown Revue. Take that, NYC. You may think you\u2019re the hottest cultural source around, but New Yorkers just got (at <em>least<\/em>) 100 reasons to rethink the notion that they\u2019re too cool to visit New Jersey. <!--more--><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get there:<\/strong> <em>Take the PATH to Newark Penn Station. From there it\u2019s a 20 minute walk to the Museum, or take the Newark Light Rail to Broad Street Station. (Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ, 973.59.6550, <a title=\"newark museum\" href=\"http:\/\/newarkmuseum.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">newarkmuseum.com<\/a>). Purchase a special commemorative round-trip Rail Pass to the Newark Museum and receive discounted travel with FREE admission. Call 973.596.6546 to purchase. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What: Party Like It\u2019s 1909\u2014for 100 Hours Where: Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ When: Wednesday, April 22 through Sunday, April 26, 24 hours starting Wednesday at 10a.m.; click here for full schedule and times. Why: Anyone who\u2019s ever read From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler knows the answer to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,4,329],"tags":[40,293,120,66,18,11268,140,269,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-2963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-events","8":"category-new-jersey-destination","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-budget-friendly","11":"tag-family-fun","12":"tag-light-rail","13":"tag-museum","14":"tag-new-jersey-guide","15":"tag-new-jersey","16":"tag-party","17":"tag-path"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}