Join the Museum Team!
Vulnerable Landscapes. Christine Cruz Photography, 2023
Current Opportunities
Visitor Experience Associate
The Visitor Experience Associate (VEA) handles all front desk functions with additional duties as requested. Reporting to the Visitor Experience Coordinator, the Visitor Experience Associate is responsible for creating a welcoming experience for all guests. Operating as a brand ambassador and representing the museum by employing exemplary customer service practices, the VEA’s primary responsibilities include: processing admissions, answering the main telephone line, offering basic exhibit interpretation, providing concierge services, selling museum memberships, museum store merchandise and, supporting museum events. This position is part-time with a regular shift schedule and the possibility of additional hours as needed.
Archives Museum Fellow
The Staten Island Museum seeks a part-time Museum Fellow to assist the museum’s initiative to rehouse and inventory SIM’s archive. The Museum Fellow program is designed to provide access to paid work in a museum and to offer mentorship for individuals interested in pursuing a career in the cultural field. This is an excellent opportunity for college students and those early in their career to gain meaningful experience working in a museum to develop pertinent skills for their career path. This is a one-year grant-funded position with the possibility of renewal.
Internships
Interested in learning more about the inner workings of a museum? The Staten Island Museum offers internships for undergraduate and post graduate students to explore museum careers and gain professional experience.
Staten Island Museum is participating in the Arts Intern program for Summer 2025. Arts Intern provides opportunities for college students with financial need to experience arts professions. Explore careers in the arts and expand the possibilities for a better future with a paid nine week summer internship (June – Mid August).
Volunteering
Staten Island Museum has a longstanding tradition of engaging volunteers. Volunteers are a key part of the Museum’s operations whether facilitating public programs, supporting special events, providing docent tours or providing community outreach.
Fence Show Volunteers Needed! Saturday, September 26th
Each year, the Fence Show transforms the Museum’s front lawn into an outdoor gallery featuring local artists and craftspeople. See and purchase paintings, ceramics, prints, jewelry and textiles and take something original home from this longstanding festival.
Volunteers work under the supervision of Staten Island Museum staff and will receive training for their assignment. If you are interested in being a volunteer at the Annual Fence Show, please fill out out the application below.
To get involved as a volunteer at the Museum, please contact our Director of Operations Renée Bushelle at [email protected].