The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, founded in 1966, is located on the Voorhees Mall on the campus of Rutgers University.  The Museum’s permanent collection contains over 60,000 items, with particular strengths in Russian and Soviet art, French and American 19th century art, and American 20th century and contemporary art.

An interesting element is the Museum’s collection of ‘japonisme’, works of Western (French, American and British) art heavily influenced by Japanese art, as well as Japanese works from the early 20th century which elucidate the artistic influence that Japanese culture had on the Western world of the period.  Additional points of interest include the Norton & Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art (the largest such collection of its kind in the world), and the Herbert D. and Ruth Schimmel Rare Book Library, a collection of almost 4000 illustrated books and journals concerning French art and culture at the turn of the 20th century.

Numerous rotating exhibitions feature works in all manner of media, often examining the work of particular artists or groups of artists and the social/political climate in which they worked.