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Rutgers Gardens is a 180-acre public botanical garden of Rutgers University, located adjacent to Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at 112 Log Cabin Road, North Brunswick, New Jersey, 08902 on Rutgers - New Brunswick campus. The grounds include 60 acres of designed beds, specialty gardens, tree and shrub collections, lawns, and walking paths, and the adjoining nearly 60-acre Frank G. Helyar Woods. The gardens are open year-round, without fee, and feature horticultural collections arranged in garden settings. In 2017 it was granted landmark status by the American Society for Horticultural Science.
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The State Theatre is a nonprofit venue that features performing artists from the national and international stage while also providing art education programs.
The Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum has become quite an attraction in this little city. Charging $6 for adults who are not members; $5 for citizens over 65; and children under 18, Rutgers University students, faculty, and staff with a valid I.D. enjoy free admission. Free admission is given for all visitors on the first Sunday of every month. This art museum continuously has new exhibitions coming in and out, which keeps things interesting.
Rutgers is a major aspect of the city. The College Avenue Campus is home to several dorms and lecture halls, with frathouses nearby. The Zimmerli Art Museum, Geology Museum, the Rutgers Student Center, and Old Queens (as a historic centerpiece) are places of attraction. The College Avenue Gym is also the site of the first ever intercollegiate football game, in which Rutgers defeated Princeton by a score of 6-4 in 1869, commemorated by a plaque on the outside of the Gym and a statue outside Rutgers Stadium on the University's Busch Campus.