Access to Parking Lot 3 (P3), which is directly behind the Staten Island Museum, may be limited or off line from April 8 – May 2, 2024 due to ongoing work. The Museum will be open to the public for regularly scheduled hours and school group visits. We recommend parking in lots P4 (near the pond) or P1 (near the Children’s Museum). Click here for location and directions.
Join former board member Mitchell Grubler and other Lambda friends to learn about the power of joy and celebration as a tool for LGBTQ organizing in 1980s Staten Island.
Learn more about the thoughts, intentions, and design process behind “Etherea” Best-in-Show Garden at the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show.
Join geologist Yesenia Arroyo to learn more about the unique greenish rock known as serpentinite.
Dive into the content of Clementine Hunter's painting “Threshing Pecans” with botanist Dr. Kobinah Abdul-Salim.
Join us as we explore the tulip tree and how it has made a mark on our American natural history with La' Portia Perkins, natural resource scientist, researcher, activist, and poet.
Learn more about the borough’s place in the complicated history of the Wild West through an item found in the museum’s collection.
Take a closer look at invasive species and unintended consequences with wildlife biologist Danielle Belleny.
The American chestnut tree survived all adversaries for 40 million years. It took only 40 for it to disappear.
1933 was one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons, falling third after 2005 and 2020. Learn what a chance find in the collection can tell us about why it was so active and what we can learn.
Did you know that the third Vice President of the United States, Aaron Burr, spent the final months of his life living in a Port Richmond hotel?
Olive Earle was a children’s book writer and illustrator whose work centered on the natural world. Take a closer look at her work and discuss her time spent on Staten Island.
During a time when women in science were rare, Elizabeth Knight Britton was an expert in bryology, the study of mosses. Learn about Elizabeth’s influence on science in Staten Island and New York City and what makes a moss, a moss!
Join the Curator of Women of the Nation Arise! for a look at the arguments suffragists made in favor of women’s participation in government.
Two portraits by Raphael Soyer hang in the Staten Island Museum: A Girl with Flowers (1940) and Self-portrait in my 60’s (1969). Join us for a brief look at Soyer’s life, philosophy on art, and the story of how these two artworks found a home on Staten Island.