Staten Island Museum

Summer Nights: Printmaking Collagraphs
2021-08-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Join artist Jenya Frid to explore surface design through collagraphy, a type of printmaking process in which a print is taken from a collaged textured plate. Experiment with a variety of materials and leave with an original collagraph, plate, prints, and insight into this tactile creative process.
$35/$30 members. Registration required.

Summer Nights: Shore to Shore Scavenger Hunt III
2021-08-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
We’re back for another edition of this scavenger hunt on four wheels! Clues lead teams throughout Staten Island to sites of recent and bygone historical and cultural significance. Players post responses to clues from a teammate’s social media account while judges follow along. Participating teams will need a car and a teammate with Instagram or Facebook. The first team back at the Museum with all clues solved and posted to social media will win the coveted Golden Magnifying Glass!
$35/$30 members per player.
$75 per cars with 3 or more players
*Each participating car must be equipped with enough seatbelts for all players. All laws must be strictly obeyed or teams face immediate disqualification. Open to all ages.

Summer Nights: Sailors' Valentine
2021-07-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Presented in partnership with the Noble Maritime Collection
Sailor’s Valentines are an art form in which small shells are arranged to create ornate patterns. These artworks were popular in the 1800s when sailors brought them home for loved ones as souvenirs. Get hands-on with the history of this seaworthy craft and create a unique shell mosaic of your very own.
Limited Capacity. Registration required.

Moth Night - In Person
2021-07-24 20:30 - 22:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
$10 Adults/$5 Children
Presented in partnership with the Staten Island Children’s Museum. Stay up late for Moth Night! Revel in the beauty of moths and learn about their life cycles and habitats. Take a close look at Museum specimens, enjoy art activities, and a go on a short walk to find what the insects you see at night. Bring your own flashlight!
Limited capacity, registration is required.
Explore the wonders of nocturnal science with our Night Science Discovery Kit – Volume II. Available for free download July 17!

Science Talk: Brood X Sounding Off
2021-07-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Join Colleen Evans, Director of Natural Science at the Staten Island Museum for a talk about how she helped collect insects for the current exhibition, Jennifer Angus: Magicada and all things Cicada.
What is Brood X? When will we see another emergence in Staten Island and how do they make that cacophonous sound!?
Free with Museum Admission.

Night Science Discovery Kit – Volume II
2021-07-17 - 2021-08-31 | Download
Explore the wonders of nocturnal science with our Night Science Discovery Kit – Volume II. Available for free download.
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Demystify the nocturnal world of science right from your windowsill or backyard with a downloadable kit of night science activities! With instructional videos, closer-looks, games and art activities, this interactive guidebook helps users explore the wonders of the scientific world, which comes alive when the sun goes down.
Released for this year’s National Moth Week which celebrates the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths – “moth-ers” of all ages and abilities are encouraged to learn about, observe, and document moths in their backyards, parks, and neighborhoods.
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Explore your yard, your neighborhood, or look out the window! Celebrate the wonder of moths and use your senses to discover the natural world by moonlight. Warm summer nights are perfect for bringing the whole family together to explore the scientific world that comes alive when the sun goes down.
Videos:
Y’all Need Science: What is nighttime? with Science Communicator Yesenia Arroyo
Glow in the Dark Mushrooms! with Nature Educator Jules Amanita
Collection Spotlight: “Mr. Davis’ Beetle Box” with Colleen Evans, Director of Natural Science, Staten Island Museum
Owl Walk through High Rock with Cliff Hagen, President of Protectors of Pine Oak Woods and Deputy Borough President, Edward Burke
How to Make a Light Attractor with Colleen Evans, Director of Natural Science, Staten Island Museum
Y’all Need Science: Auroras with Science Communicator Yesenia Arroyo
Activities:
After Dark Scavenger Hunt
Audio Battle: Bat Maze
Coloring Page – Atlas Moth
Can you hear me now? Echolocation Activity
Coloring Page – Rothschild’s Silk Moth
The Summertime Insect Chorus
Word Search
Light Attractor Field Guide
About the Presenters:
Yesenia Arroyo is a geologist, host of the YouTube series “Y’all Need Science”, and fab lab instructor at the Melrose Center in Orlando, Florida. Yesenia loves to teach STEM classes in informal education settings, like museums and libraries. They are enthusiastic about making science accessible for everyone by focusing on big science concepts that they believe everyone knows intuitively.
Jules Amanita is an amateur mycologist and nature educator with a passion for demystifying fungi. They create videos about mushroom identification, terminology, field guide literacy, and safe foraging. Additionally, they lead virtual and in-person mushroom hunting workshops. Located in Louisa, VA, they live at Twin Oaks Community—the oldest and largest egalitarian commune in North America—where they teach a weekly Forest School for kids between the ages of two and eight. Their mission is to help people develop a personal connection with the ecosystems around them.
Colleen R. Evans is the Staten Island Museum’s Director of Natural Sciences. A biologist who specializes in museum collections, Evans also brings a wide knowledge of arthropods and science education to her post. She earned her BS and MS in Biology at the University of North Texas. She has served as an instructor at Georgia Southern University and Collections Manager of the University’s Natural History Collections, including the US National Tick Collection. She has conducted research with various collections including the Georgia Southern Herbarium (GAS) and the Joseph Britton Freshwater Mussel Collection at UNT.
Cliff Hagen, a life-long Staten Islander, is president of Protectors of Pine Oak Woods, Staten Island’s all-volunteer environmental preservation organization. The mission of Protectors of Pine Oak Woods is two-fold, calling for an increased stewardship of park properties and the environmental education of our community to facilitate the preservation of open space on Staten Island. For more than two decades Cliff Hagen has been a teacher of special education with the Department of Education as well as On Your Mark and is concerned with the health and wellness of our community.
As Deputy Borough President, Edward Burke works closely with the Borough President and his staff on public policy, community issues and special projects for the office. Mr. Burke plays a role in a wide array of issues for the Borough President, including parks and recreation, cultural attractions, youth and quality of life issues. He also specializes in promoting Staten Island’s special places, advancing the Island’s motto as a “The Borough of Parks.” Mr. Burke has served in government on Staten Island for 29 years.

Jennifer Angus: Magicicada New Exhibition
2021-07-16 11:00 - 17:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Artist Jennifer Angus presents Magicicada, taking inspiration from the museum’s collection of cicadas – one of the world’s largest. Angus has created an immersive environment to discover, full of exquisite and ornamental patterns and imaginative vignettes, unexpectedly created with hundreds of preserved insects.
The museum welcomes you to this new exhibition with expanded hours, now open Friday through Sunday 11am- 5pm.

Juneteenth at the Staten Island Museum
2021-06-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Staten Island Museum at Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building A, Staten Island, NY, 10301, United States
Free Admission All Day
Join historian Debbie-Ann Paige and the Staten Island Museum in a celebration of Juneteenth. Learn about how the Staten Island African American Heritage Tour can bring Staten Island’s Black History right to your fingertips. Take a curator-led tour of Women of the Nation Arise! and learn from the stories of Drusilla Poole and Florence Spearing Randolph how Black suffragists claimed space in the fight for women’s right to vote.
Staten Island African American Heritage Tour Introduction at 1:00pm, 2:00pm, 3:00pm, and 4:00pm
Exhibition tours at 1:30pm, 2:30pm and 3:30pm
Explore the Juneteenth Freedom Festival at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

Super Science: What is a Bioindicator?
2021-06-19
New Episode!
$5 recommended donation/Registration is not required
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Responding to pollutants in their environment, certain organisms can change their body and behavior. Explore what plants and animals can tell us about the health of their habitat and conduct an experiment to show why amphibians are good bioindicators.

Lunch and Learn: Stumped
2021-06-17 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
*Recorded from a Live Zoom Session*
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
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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 that season, why it was so active, and what it can tell us about future hurricane seasons with Director of Natural Science, Colleen Evans.

Lunch and Learn is a new lecture and presentation series beginning with a focus on objects in the museum’s collection. Join us when you’re hungry for knowledge, but only have time for a snack.

Family Art To-Go: Wooden Mosaics
2021-06-05 12:00 - 16:00
NEW! Family Art To-Go Packs
Recommended for ages 8+
Craving some non-screen creative time? Each Family Art To-Go Pack comes with all the materials you need plus step-by-step instructions to guide kids and families through projects without having to worry about technical difficulties.
This month use wooden shapes to create complex geometric designs.
To-Go packs can be purchased online by clicking the registration button and picked up at the Visitor Services Desk during museum hours.
Starting June 5, available all month long while supplies last.

Lunch and Learn: Have you heard about Aaron Burr, Sir?
2021-05-20 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
*This is a recording from a Live Zoom Session*
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
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Join Archives Manager, Gabriella Leone and take a closer look at artifacts in the Museum’s collection linked Aaron Burr, one of the Island’s most (in)famous residents whose story was made popular by the musical Hamilton. Learn more about Burr, the third Vice President of the United States, who spent the final months of his life living in a Port Richmond hotel.

Lunch and Learn is a new lecture and presentation series beginning with a focus on objects in the museum’s collection. Join us when you’re hungry for knowledge, but only have time for a snack.

Super Science: Do Birds Have Teeth?
2021-05-08 | Online
New Episode!
$5 recommended donation/Registration is not required
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All animals have adapted features which help them meet their basic needs, like eating or finding food. Learn all about the specialized functions of bird beaks. What can the shape or size tell us about their lives?

Family Art To-Go: Funky Frames
2021-05-01 12:00 - 16:00
NEW! Family Art To-Go Packs
Recommended for ages 8+
Craving some non-screen creative time? Each Family Art To-Go Pack comes with all the materials you need plus step-by-step instructions to guide kids and families through projects without having to worry about technical difficulties.
This month create an ornate frame fit for your favorite photo or artwork.
To-Go packs can be purchased online by clicking the registration button and picked up at the Visitor Services Desk during museum hours.
Starting May 1, available all month long while supplies last.

Family Art To-Go: Marble Runs and Crazy Mazes
2021-04-24 12:00 - 16:00
NEW! Family Art To-Go Packs
Recommended for ages 8+
Craving some non-screen creative time? Each Family Art To-Go Pack comes with all the materials you need plus step-by-step instructions to guide kids and families through projects without having to worry about technical difficulties.
This month design, test, and build marble runs and mind-bending mazes with wooden materials of all shapes and sizes.
To-Go packs can be purchased online by clicking the registration button and picked up at the Visitor Services Desk during museum hours.
Starting April 3, available all month long while supplies last.

Earth Day How-To Fest
2021-04-22 | Online
Virtual!
Join us online for this city-wide skill-share celebrating Earth Day. Enjoy a robust collection of video tutorials and presentations by local experts, enthusiasts, and professionals. This virtual science fair features a range of activities for all ages and skill levels. Celebrate our community’s know-how, learn something new, and help protect the only world we have.
The event is free, donations are welcome.
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2021 Lineup
Welcome to the 2021 Earth Day How-To Festival
Supported by National Grid

How to Help Monarch Butterfly Migration
Cooper Keane (Amateur Lepidopterist)

How to Make Mineral Pigment
Tattfoo Tan (Artist)

How To Cultivate Community Growth Through Gardening
Sarah Blas (Founder, Staten Island Therapeutic Gardens)

How to Put a Kayak to Sea … and Come Back
Tony Rose (Director, Natural Resources Protective Association)

How To Attract Attractive Birds
Cliff Hagen (President, Protectors of Pine Oak Woods)

How To Alkalize Your Water
Staten Island Urban Center – Landfill Fashionistas

How to Make a Pollinator-friendly Outdoor Space
Jenna Otero and Annabel Posimato (NYC Regional Environmental Educator, New York State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation)

How to Use a Baseplate Compass
Greenbelt Nature Center – Christopher Rommel, Environmental Educator

How to Press a Plant and Start an Herbaria at Home
Colleen Evans (Director of Natural Science Interpretation and Collections, Staten Island Museum)

How to Follow Your Dreams of Becoming a Science Communicator
Ashley Gary (Science communicator, @thewildlifehost)

How To Start a Nature Journal
Ciara Scully (Regional Environmental Educator at New York State Parks, Shirley Chisholm State Park Environmental Education Team)

Staten Island Weed, or Medicinal plant? How to Identify and Use!
Aly Stoffo, Environmental Communicator (@glamgardenernyc)

Eat the Weeds: How To Forage In Your Backyard
Kwynn Hogan, Environmentalist, Advocate, & Educator (@kwynn.hgn)

What Tree is That? How to Identify Five of My Favorite Trees.
Lenny Librizzi (Beekeeper and Community Gardener)

How To Hike Staten Island
Franco Paolino (@wildstatenisland)

How To Observe Animals Like a Scientist
Cait Field (Manager for Science & Research Development , Freshkills Park Alliance)

How To Cold Stratify Seeds for Spring Planting
Wambui Ippolito (Horticulturist)

How To Choose the Right Houseplant for Your Home
Cristian Gilces (GrowNYC)

Explore last year’s Earth Day How-To Fest!

Lunch and Learn: Olive Earle and the Natural World
2021-04-15 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
*This is a recording of a Live Zoom Session*
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
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Olive Earle was a children’s book writer and illustrator whose work centered on the natural world. Her work was exhibited in group shows at American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles Museum, and more. For a time she made her home on Staten Island and we can assume that many of the plants and animals she sketched here made their way into her beloved books.

Join Collections Manager Audrey Malachowky for a closer look.
Lunch and Learn is a new lecture and presentation series beginning with a focus on objects in the museum’s collection. Join us when you’re hungry for knowledge, but only have time for a snack.

Super Science: Biodiversity in a Box
2021-03-20 | Online
New Episode!
$5 recommended donation/Registration is not required
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Super Science can be viewed at YouTube.com/SIMuseum
(Click here to go right to the playlist) on and after the scheduled date and time.
See Mr. Davis’ Beetle Box, a wonderful illustration of the diversity of organisms that can be found just outside your door! Learn how to be a backyard scientist by using a hula hoop to observe biodiversity and create a field journal to record your findings.
Super Science is hosted by special guest Ashley Gary, The Wildlife Host!

Lunch and Learn: Elizabeth Britton and Her Mosses
2021-03-18 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
*Recording of a Live Zoom Session*
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!
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Lunch and Learn is a new lecture and presentation series beginning with a focus on objects in the museum’s collection. Join us when you’re hungry for knowledge, but only have time for a snack.

Family Art Workshop: Hanging Mobiles
2021-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Live Event, * Please register.
*Live Zoom Session*
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
Explore movement in sculpture with this imaginative art form combining elements of physics and design. Make your own double-sided hanging mobile and learn the basic mechanics of kinetic sculpture in this introductory workshop.
Once registered an email will be sent with the zoom link for the program.
Supply List:
Wire
Wire hanger (optional)
Pliers (if using heavier wire)
Scissors
Card stock, construction paper
Tape

Super Science: Water Critters
2021-02-20 | Online
New Episode!
$5 recommended donation/Registration is not required
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Super Science can also be viewed at YouTube.com/SIMuseum
(Click here to go right to the playlist)
Visit the collections to get up close with some of the stranger insects that can be found in or near the water. Learn how to create your own water strider and learn how they can “walk on water” by exploring surface tension.
Super Science is hosted by special guest Ashley Gary, The Wildlife Host!

Lunch and Learn: Drusilla Poole and Local Suffragists in Their Own Words
2021-02-18 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
*Live Zoom Session*
A recording of this presentation is available below.
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
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Celebrate Black History Month by joining Gabriella Leone, Curator of Women of the Nation Arise!, for a look at the arguments suffragists made in favor of women’s participation in government. Learn about local suffragists such as Drusilla Poole, 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.

Lunch and Learn is a new lecture and presentation series beginning with a focus on objects in the museum’s collection. Join us when you’re hungry for knowledge, but only have time for a snack.

Maedeup (Korean Knots) Art Workshop
2021-02-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Live Event, * Please register.
*Live Zoom Session*
Registration required
$15/$10 members
Learn how to make Maedeup, the traditional Korean art form of knotting silken cords. Maedeup consists of over 35 intricate knots, some with imaginative names such as “dragonfly” and “plum blossom,” all skillfully made into beautiful ornaments and accessories. In this introductory workshop, guests will learn how to make their own Maedeup ornament using this traditional technique.
All supplies are provided and can be picked up at the Staten Island Museum’s Visitor Services desk at 12pm on Saturday, February 13.
Once registered an email will be sent with the zoom link for the program.

Korean Lunar New Year – At Home!
2021-02-12 | Download
Registration required
$5 recommended donation/ Free for members
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Download this interactive guide (click the image below) and bring the traditions of Seollal (Korean Lunar New Year) right into your own home! Celebrate the whole week with recipes, games, videos, and activities for the entire family to enjoy! Learn about the games (To-hoh), food (Tteok-guk), fashion (hanbok), and performing arts that epitomize this special time of year with this downloadable guide.

Ring in the Year of the Ox with the Staten Island Museum and Korean Community Development Center!

Family Art Workshop: Suncatcher
2021-02-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Live Event, * Please register.
*Live Zoom Session*
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
Spring hasn’t arrived yet and we’ll take all the sun we can get! Brighten up your window by creating your own suncatcher using a unique print-transfer technique along with materials found around the house.
Once registered an email will be sent with the zoom link for the program.
Supply List:
• Clear packing tape
• Magazines/catalogs
• Popsicle sticks
• Hot glue or Elmer’s
• Scissors
• Medium sized bowl with warm water

Super Science: Camouflage
2021-01-23 | Online
New Episode!
$5 recommended donation/Registration is not required
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Super Science can be viewed at YouTube.com/SIMuseum
(Click here to go right to the playlist) on and after the scheduled date and time.
Take a peek at some of the unexpected ways animals blend into their surroundings. Experiment with color and pattern to uncover the creative ways animals disguise themselves.
Super Science is hosted by special guest Ashley Gary, The Wildlife Host!

Lunch and Learn: Artist Raphael Soyer
2021-01-21 12:00 - 12:30 | Online
*Live Zoom Session*
A recording of this presentation is available below.
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
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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.
“From all that I have seen, I am more than ever convinced that art must communicate, and it must represent, describe and express people, their lives and times.” – Raphael Soyer
Lunch and Learn is a new lecture and presentation series beginning with a focus on objects in the museum’s collection. Join us when you’re hungry for knowledge, but only have time for a snack.

Family Art Workshop: Clay Coil Pots
2021-01-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Live Event, * Please register.
*Live Zoom Session*
$5 suggested donation/ free for members
Learn how to make your own air-dry clay at home and use this simple handbuilding technique to create your own pot by rolling and joining coils of clay.
Supply list:
Flour
Salt
Water
A measuring cup
A mixing bowl
Food coloring or paint
Once registered an email will be sent with the zoom link for the program.

Super Science: Hibernation, Migration, Adaptation
2020-12-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
$5 recommended donation/Registration is not required
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When the going gets tough, the tough doesn’t always get going…sometimes they adapt! However, you can observe how local animals and birds spend their winter by setting up an outdoor feeding station and recording your findings in a science journal. We will show you how!
Explore the ingenuity behind seasonal living through the lives of the Wood Frog, Alaskan Caribou, and Arctic Fox.

Make your own pinecone birdfeeder!

Explore the Natural Science collection!

This fall, Super Science will be hosted by guest scientist Ashley Gary, The Wildlife Host!

Ashley Gary is a science communicator known online as The Wildlife Host (@thewildlifehost). Since 2018 she has been sharing her love and passion for wildlife with her community on both Instagram and Twitter. Along with sparking curiosity in people about the natural world, she also promotes positivity and following your dreams. It was following her dreams and forging ahead that lead to the creation of The Wildlife Host brand and the opportunity to reach thousands of people with the message of appreciation and stewardship of the biodiversity around us.

Family Art Workshop: Winter Landscape Diorama
2020-12-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Online
00Create your own tiny winter world using your imagination and found materials. Get inspired by some of the most beautiful winter scenes in the museum collection, and make a magical miniature diorama all your own.
Supply List

An empty shoe box
Glue
Scissors
Construction paper
Tissues
Old newspapers
Small Toys
Optional art materials: paint (and a brush) or crayons, glitter or sequins, cotton balls
Optional natural materials: small branches, pine cones
