Welcome
The Museum is Open!
The Staten Island Museum’s is now open on weekends and we look forward to welcoming you back! We hope to provide a space of comfort while connecting with human expression and exploring art, natural science, and history. Please review our updated visitor safety guidelines and how to purchase advanced tickets.
Celebrate Black History Month
Lunch and Learn: Drusilla Poole and Local Suffragists
Lunch and Learn is a new lecture and presentation series that focuses on objects in the Museum’s collection. On February 18, learn about local suffragists such as Drusilla Poole (pictured), whose organization, the Women’s Civic and Political Union, formed in 1919 to teach Black women on Staten Island about politics and encourage them to vote.
Upcoming Exhibition
Jennifer Angus: Magicicada
Using responsibly-collected and preserved specimens, the artist Jennifer Angus creates site-specific installations of insects pinned directly to a wall and other surfaces creating exquisite patterns reminiscent of textiles or wallpaper. Coming in July 2021.
Memento Vitae, Courtesy of the Shelburne Museum.
Thank you to our major institutional funders.
The Staten Island Museum is a proud member of the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), a public-private partnership with the City of New York, and receives operating support from the City of New York which owns its building through the Department of Cultural Affairs, Commissioner Gonzalo Casals, from Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council, Speaker Corey Johnson, with additional support from Staten Island delegation and the Staten Island Borough President, James S. Oddo.