Museums offer us a compelling glance into the past, unparalleled by reading textbooks or Googling “the past.” Refine your search parameters with today’s Groupon to the Newark Museum in Newark. Choose between the following options:

• For $14, you get a one-day admission for two adults and two children (a $32 value).
• For $29, you get a one-year family membership (a $60 value).
  
  

Established in 1909, the Newark Museum gradually expanded from its two-room origins to the bountiful 80 galleries of today, with a campus comprising a one-room schoolhouse, sculpture garden, and planetarium, in addition to the main museum. Traipse through one of the many ongoing exhibits such as The Glitter and The Gold: Jewelry from the Newark Museum, which displays a glinting anthology of jewelry from the early 1700s to the present, including the "Butterfly Lady" brooch from Newark’s historic jewelry industry and a collection of colonial Rolexes. The impressively curated Tibetan Collection brings to life the Himalayan territory through exhibits such as the 15 biographical, narrative paintings of Tsongkhapa–The Life of a Tibetan Visionary, and Pots of Silver and Gold, replete with traditional Tibetan motifs of lotus buds and dragons.

A one-year family membership gives free admission to two adults and up to four children and a 10 percent discount at the museum gift shop, as well as priority summer-camp registration and exclusive invites to previews and events.