Staten Island Museum

Crafts & Cocoa
2025-12-07 11:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Free admission. Donations welcome.
Rest your shopping feet and enjoy some hot cocoa while you craft a pop-up holiday card. All materials (and cocoa) provided.

Bird and Nature Walk: Great Kills
2025-12-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Great Kills Park
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks.
After checking the area around the parking lot for horned lark and snow buntings, we will check the shore area for wintering waterfowl, and eventually head out to Crooke’s Point.
Meet in the big parking lot.

Bird and Nature Walk: Great Kills Park
2026-01-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Great Kills Park
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, in addition to taking walk out to Crooke’s Point.. Meet near the playground in the first large parking lot.

Here You Are: Staten Island Triennial Members and Private Opening
2026-01-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
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 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. This triennial exhibition illuminates the layered worlds hidden in plain sight.
Artists: Roemello Agjmurati, Gabri Christa, Olga Ginzburg, Siobhan McBride, Arjuna Prieur-Routte, Lynore Routte, and Lea Simoniello.
Curated by Rylee Eterginoso
Support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts

Here You Are: Staten Island Triennial Public Opening Reception
2026-01-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
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. This triennial exhibition illuminates the layered worlds hidden in plain sight.
Artists: Roemello Agjmurati, Gabri Christa, Olga Ginzburg, Siobhan McBride, Arjuna Prieur-Routte, Lynore Routte, and Lea Simoniello.
Curated by Rylee Eterginoso
Support from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts

Bird and Nature Walk: Wolfe's Pond Park
2026-01-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Wolfe’s Pond Park, 420 Cornelia Ave., Staten Island, NY, 10312, United States
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.

Bird and Nature Walk: South Beach/Fort Wadsworth
2026-02-11 10:30 - 12:30 | South Beach Park, Father Capodanno Blvd and Sand Ln, Staten Island, New York, 10305
Join naturalists Ed Johnson and Ray Matarazzo with Director of Natural Science Colleen Evans on guided walks through the borough of parks.
In addition to the usual (and maybe unusual) species of waterfowl and gulls that winter here, we will also be on the lookout for harbor seals. Meet in the parking lot off Capodanno Blvd, opposite Sand Lane.

Midwinter Recess - Family Art Workshops (Collage)
2026-02-18 13:00 - 15:00
February 18,19, 20, 1:00pm-3:00pm
$5, includes museum admission.
Join us every afternoon for art and craft-based activities inspired by the museum’s collection.
Wednesday – Collage
Thursday – Drawing
Friday – Mixed media painting

Midwinter Recess - Family Art Workshops (Drawing)
2026-02-19 13:00 - 15:00

Midwinter Recess - Family Art Workshops (Mixed Media Painting)
2026-02-20 13:00 - 15:00

SKIN Dance Company Celebrates Black History Month
2026-02-21 14:00 - 15:30
Tickets: $25 adults, $10 for children ages 5 and up. 5 and under are free.
Registration required. Includes museum admission.
Join us for a powerful afternoon of movement, memory, and legacy as SKIN Dance Company honors Black History Month through Afrocentric choreography, ancestral storytelling, and cosmic celebration. Featuring excerpts from Josephine’s Cotton: The Musical, this performance pays tribute to the spirit of Josephine Baker—artist, activist, and icon of liberation.

Bird and Nature Walk: Brookfield Park
2026-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Brooklfield Park, Arthur Kill Rd. bet. Richmond Ave. and New Vale Ave., Staten Island, 10308, United States
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.

Bird and Nature Walk: Conference House Park
2026-03-11 10:00 - 12:00 | Conference House Park, 298 Satterlee St., Staten Island, NY, 10307
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 waterfront for late wintering waterfowl, as well as the plantings around the park for early spring arrivals. Meet on Satterlee St. by the Visitor’s Center.

Triennial Artist Talk: Siobahn McBride and Lea Simoniello
2026-03-14 14:00 - 15:30
Free with museum admission.
Join Here You Are artists Siobhan McBride and Lea Simoniello in the auditorium and gallery to learn more about their artwork and creative practice. McBride’s paintings are descriptions of strange and quotidian experiences, passages from books, film fragments, things caught in the corner of the eye and an attempt to conjure slippery memories. Simoniello’s work is a deeply personal
excavation of body, gender, and psychological landscape. Through oil painting, graphite, and textile sculpture, Simoniello explores themes of femininity, masculinity, abuse, athleticism, and vulnerability.

Bird and Nature Walk: Mount Loretto Unique Area
2026-03-25 10:00 - 12:00 | Mount Loretto Unique Area, 20 Kenny Road, Staten Island, NY, 10309, United States
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.

Hekate Supper: Performative Lecture with Artist Kay Turner
2026-03-28 14:00 - 16:00
Free with museum admission.
Join artist and scholar Kay Turner as she unfolds the archetype of Hekate, Greek goddess of many things–the Crossroads, the Underworld, the Moon. She was also very much associated with the cycle of fruition and decay. Her worshippers held “suppers” for her at crossroads shrines and left the refuse in her honor.

Bird and Nature Walk: Freshkills-North Park
2026-04-08 10:00 - 12:00 | Freshkills North Park, 350 Wild Ave., Staten Island, NY, 10314, United States
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.

Earth Day How-To Festival
2026-04-11 12:00 - 16:00
Free with museum admission.
Join us as we transform the museum into a giant classroom celebrating community science! Hands-on workshops, drop-in presentations, and scheduled lectures take place throughout the museum. Local experts, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and professionals share their particular passions, ranging from activities that require highly specialized skills to those anyone can do. Celebrate our community’s know-how, learn something new, and help protect the only world we have.

Bird and Nature Walk: Clove Lakes Park
2026-04-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Clove Lakes Park
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.
Meet at Victory Blvd. & Royal Oak Road (near ballfield).
