My friend says there is an American Indian museum in Newark, NJ.
The Newark Museum is the only museum I know of.
Are there other ones?

Hi there apbear --

A search for NJ museums with Native American collections yields a
number of results. There are no museums (other than the Newark Museum)
listed in Newark.  However, some of these others are nearby and may be
what your friend is thinking of.  The more distant ones I've added
just in case you have an interest to travel to one.  I've broken the
listings below into those within 15-30 minutes of Newark and those
that are farther away.

NEAR NEWARK ----- 

Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue,  Montclair, New Jersey

The Museum carries out this mission through its high quality American
and Native American art collections and varied exhibitions, education
activities, and related art presentations.

http://www.artcom.com/museums/nv/mr/07042-17.htm

New Jersey Civil War and Native American Museum (aka Camp Olden Civil
War Round Table and Museum, Inc.)

It also features a large collection of Native American tools and
artifacts, most of which were found within miles of the museum. The
museum is housed in a two-story, 7 room tenant house contructed about
1730 which is on the grounds of Veterans Park in Hamilton Township.

http://www.campolden.org/

Seton Hall University Museum, South Orange, New Jersey.

Found several references to Native American research being done there,
but no link to a museum website.  This might help:

http://www.setonworldwide.net/index.real?action=AboutSetonWorldwide

Herbert Kraft is the director of that museum -- 

Kraft, Herbert C. The Indians of Lenapehoking - a Book and Unit about
the Lenape or Delaware Indians. South Orange, New Jersey: Seton Hall
University Museum, 1985. (For further information please call
201-761-9543. )
 
http://www.burlco.lib.nj.us/pinelands/readinglist.htm




FARTHER AWAY --- 

The New Jersey State Museum -- Trenton

Permanent Collections: 
NEW JERSEY'S NATIVE AMERICANS: THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
THE DELAWARE INDIANS

http://www.state.nj.us/state/museum/exhibitions/collections.html

LOCATION:  205 West State Street in Trenton within walking distance of
the State House. It is situated overlooking the Delaware River midway
between New York and Philadelphia.

http://www.state.nj.us/state/museum/visiting/index.html

Powhatan Renape Nation American Indian Museum
PO Box 225    Rancocas, NJ 08073   (609) 261-4747

"The ONLY Indian owned and operated museum in New Jersey!  Our
American Indian Heritage Museum offers a unique, multifaceted look at
American Indian culture. In addition to viewing contemporary American
Indian artwork, visitors will learn about American Indian history,
culture and traditions

http://www.powhatan.org/museum.html

Franklin Mineral Museum  

The new Jensen Wing of the Museum features the Wilfred Welsh natural
history collections of fossils, Native American relics, and a variety
of rocks and minerals

http://www.fieldtrip.com/nj/18273481.htm


I hope you find these links helpful --

K~

Search terms:
NJ museum "native American"
New Jersey museum "native American"

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Clarification of Answer by knowledge_seeker-ga on 28 Jul 2002 12:34 PDT

Here..I just found one more thing -- 

NEW JERSEY - HISTORICAL MUSEUMS BY COUNTY
http://www.princeton.lib.nj.us/nj/histmus.html

-K~

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Clarification of Answer by knowledge_seeker-ga on 28 Jul 2002 12:35 PDT

Oh! And thank you for the stars! We must have been posting at the same time!

-K~

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