Corporate Sponsorship

The Staten Island Museum recognizes the importance of developing mutually beneficial partnerships with corporations and ensuring that the sponsorship works strategically to benefit the community while providing the sponsor with maximum visibility among key constituents. Sponsorship of an Exhibition or Event presents the opportunity to strengthen corporate image and enhance visibility while also achieving the highest possible marketing results from sponsorship dollars.

Name: Annual Fence Show
Date: September
Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center 1000 Richmond Terrace
Description: As Staten Island's oldest outdoor running art show, and New York City's second oldest outdoor art show, this annual event is draws consistently over 5,000 residents to view and/or purchase artworks from local and visiting artists. Visitors will be treated to an assortment of mediums including oil paintings, watercolors, collages, photographs and sculpture. The Fence Show takes place along the historic wrought iron fence of the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. This attractive site is conveniently located near mass transportation and is wheel chair accessible.

Name: Fire & Ice: Geology of Staten Island
Date: ongoing
Location: Staten Island Museum at 75 Stuyvesant Place
Description: Every day thousands of people drive along the Staten Island Expressway, passing by a series of towering green cliffs in the vicinity of Sunnyside. Few of them realize that these cliffs mark the site of an ancient continental collision, which ultimately led to the formation of the bedrock of Staten Island.

This is just one of the stories to be told in Fire & Ice: The Geology of Staten Island. This exhibition details the geologic history of Staten Island, using historic photographs, maps and specimens from the Museum's extensive geology collection.

The continental collision referred to above took place during the Ordovician Period, some 450 million years ago. At that time, the proto-continents of North America and Africa were slowly inching towards each other, through the process known as plate tectonics. When the continents eventually collided, an offshore volcanic island arc, which had formed off the African coast, was caught in the collision zone.

This rock was subjected to metamorphism, and later became the green serpentinite that we know today. There is a discontinuous string of serpentinites, stretching from Newfoundland to Alabama, and these mark the suture zone where the two ancient continents were once welded together. Tectonic forces later tore the continents apart and eventually moved them to their current positions.

The weathering of serpentinite has produced a variety of minerals, including one, artinite that put Staten Island on the mineralogical map. The true nature of this mineral was not recognized at the time of its discovery on Staten Island early in the 19th century, and it was not formally described until almost 100 years later, from specimens found in the Italian Alps. The rediscovery of artinite on Staten Island in 1968 touched off a flurry of activity in the mineral world, as museums raced to obtain some of the best known specimens of this uncommon mineral. Specimens of Staten Island artinite can now be seen on display at major museums, including the American Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian Institute.

Staten Island's other claims to geological fame include the Graniteville quarry, which contains a fused xenolith, a rare rock formation found only in two other places in the world. The Island also marks the end point of the Wisconsin glacier, the continental ice sheet that once covered large parts of North America and Europe.

Specimens of artinite and other minerals, pieces of the xenolith, fossils from the Cretaceous clay pits, glacial drift fossils, and much more are on display to help tell the fascinating geological evolution of Staten Island.

Range : Sponsorships for exhibits and events range from $1,000 to $5,000.

For more information call Henryk Behnke at 718.727.1135 x 22 or send an email to hbehnke@statenislandmuseum.org.

List of Benefits
- prominent corporate acknowledgment at the event/within the exhibition acknowledgment in our newsletter
- acknowledgment on SIIAS web site
- acknowledgment in press and media campaigns
- complimentary corporate membership with full member benefits.
- Listing on the highly visible Wall of Support in the Museum