Events

Celebrate America's 250th Anniversary with free admission to the Staten Island Museum. View our newest exhibition Staten Island Making History that highlights key moments of Staten Island's contributions to national history.

Free with Museum Admission Here You Are presents new work in fiber, painting, film, photography, and graphic design. Seven Staten Island artists forge a path through the here and now, navigating questions and anxieties around identity, heritage, and home. Featured artwork is introspective and far reaching, exploring spaces that feel familiar, haunting, lonely, and powerful. ...

Registration by invitation only. For more information about registration or how to become a member, please contact the Development Office at 718-483-7114. Become a member to attend the preview of Here You Are: Staten Island Triennial Here You Are presents new work in fiber, painting, film, photography, and graphic design. Seven Staten Island artists forge ...

Let your culinary imagination guide you through a market full of delicious local and regional treats to give this holiday season! This delectable fair is filled with specialty items and artisanal goods both sweet and savory. Shop local and support small businesses and the creative community at the Holiday Hop! — a unique, campus wide ...

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. The highlights for this walk will be migrating shorebirds, in addition to waders and assorted.gulls and terns. Meet in the big parking lot, and we will decide which route to take down to ...

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will walk along the berm, looking for terns, etc. on the bay side, and field/marsh birds on the land side, in addition to Italian wall lizards. Meet in the parking lot at ...

$10 Adults/$5 Children Includes museum admission. Registration required. It’s the most wonderful time of the year…National Moth Week! Stay up late and celebrate the wonders of science after dark. Activities include: lantern parade, face painting, moth costumes, black light glow room, moth specimens, night walk, and attractor station. BYO Flashlight!

Free event. Recommended for all ages. Soorya NYC presents folk and traditional arts to encourage cultural exchange centered on the local Sri Lankan community. Soorya NYC helps to sustain the continuity of Sri Lankan heritage in NYC and share these traditions with the wider public. Throughout the festival, you can expect live music and performances, ...

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be on the lookout for nesting birds, particularly indigo bunting and orchard oriole. Of special note, we will be listening for periodical cicadas from Brood XIV.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be looking for nesting birds, evidence of old grist mills, and other interesting things in this little visited (at least by us) park. Meet in the parking lot located off Forest ...

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. The search for migrating birds continues. Meet in the parking lot near the Parks Dept. buildings.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. Migrating shorebirds and waders will be the highlights of this trip. Meet in the big parking lot for 10am.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. By mid-May, Clove Lakes Park is usually teeming with migrating birds. Meet at the corner of Victory Blvd. and Royal Oak Road.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. Woodlands with a pond and a feeder behind the nature center should be attractive to a variety of migrating birds. Meet in the parking lot off Poillon Ave.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. Diverse habitats should produce a good assortment of birds. Meet in the parking lot near the Visitor’s Center on Satterlee St.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. The park should provide us with a good variety of spring migrants, including warblers, vireos, thrushes, etc. We will meet at the Bridge on Martling Avenue

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We should get a nice variety of raptors and migrating waterfowl & landbirds. Meet in the parking lot at the end of Wild Ave.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be searching the fields, woodlands and waterfront for wintering songbirds, raptors and waterfowl, and maybe some early spring migrants. Meet in the parking lot off Hylan Blvd.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. Note: This Bird and Nature Walk has been changed from Silver Lake Park to Wolfe's Pond Park. We will meet in the parking lot near the Parks Department buildings.  

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. The wide open skies of Brookfield Park make it the ideal place to search for wintering raptors, while the creeks hold a variety of waterfowl. Meet in parking lot off Arthur Kill Road.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. Wolfe’s Pond Park offers a diverse variety of habitats to search, including the pond, thickets, woodlands and the waters of Raritan Bay. Meet in the parking lot near the Parks Dept. buildings.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be looking around the waterfront for waterfowl, as well as checking the area around the parking lot for horned lark and perched raptors. Meet in the first large parking lot.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be looking for wintering raptors overhead, as well as waterfowl in the wet spots and sparrows and other small songbirds in the thickets.   Meet at the side of the park ...

Part of Holiday Hop at Snug Harbor Free/Donations Welcome “Mmm!” your way through a market full of delicious local and regional treats to give this holiday season. This delectable fair is filled with specialty items and artisanal goods expertly curated by Staten Island Advance Food Editor, Pamela Silvestri. Guests to the museum can also enjoy ...

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. The feeders behind the nature center will be the highlight here, in addition to walking the woodland trails in search of wintering birds. Meet in the parking lot at the Visitor’s Center.  

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will be looking for late fall migrants and winter resident songbirds in the thickets and woods, and raptors in the open areas. Meet in the Parks Dept. parking lot across Forest Hill ...

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. We will check the reservoirs for migrating waterfowl, and the plantings around the park for late migrant/winter resident songbirds. Meet on Victory Blvd., across from the last cemetery on the right. (Vicinity of ...

Saturday, November 9 1:00pm-3:00pm $35/$30 members. Includes museum admission. All materials provided. Give the gift of homemade with this craft-based workshop just in time for the holiday season. Make one of a kind creations for loved ones or decorate your own home and treat yourself! Enjoy coffee and tea while getting creative with your community.

Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks. The diversity of habitats (freshwater pond, woodlands, Raritan Bay) should yield a good mix of migrants and winter residents. Meet in the parking lot near the Parks Dept. buildings.