Display of Events from Saturday, August 1, 2020 – Saturday, April 25, 2020 – Staten Island Museum

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9 performers in period costumes posing for a group photo

Apr 2

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Josephine’s Cotton: The Revue by Skin Dance Company

$20

A piece of Serpentenite, a greenish rock, on a grey background

Mar 17

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Serpentinite with Yesenia Arroyo

Book cover The Sustainability Myth

Mar 5

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Book Talk: The Sustainability Myth

Aerial view of the Bayonne Bridge and Staten Island

Mar 5

All day

Site Unseen Podcast: Beryl Thurman and the North Shore Waterfront

Close up of child working on arts and crafts

Feb 26

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Mid-Winter Recess: Exotic Insect Collage

$5 – $10

Sheer curtains adorned with anthropomorphic insects

Feb 25

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Mid-Winter Recess: Storytelling through Printmaking

$5 – $10

Threshing Pecans n.d.

Feb 17

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: The Pecan

Three people sitting at a table in front of computers

Feb 13

Featured 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Black History Month Transcribe-a-thon

Two elementary school children working on paper crafts at the museum

Feb 12

Featured 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Korean Lunar New Year: Seollal Crafts and Games

$10 – $15

Herbarium specimen of a tulip poplar leaf

Jan 20

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Tulip Poplar

A close up of a poster sketched, two men on a horse drawn carriage facing behind them with pistols. Another man with a pistol rides along side on a horse.

Dec 16

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Buffalo Bill in Erastina

A photograph of small mason jars with holiday color cloth on top and gift tags

Dec 4

11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Edible Island Gift Shop

A photograph of a taxidermy bluebird perched on a branch with a grey background

Nov 18

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Bluebird and European Starling

Open Call to Artists

Nov 17

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Artist Info Session: Yes, And

A man in a camouflage jacket and hat with arms stretched above him taking a photo of insects on a tree

Nov 13

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Presentation: How Brood X Cicadas Changed My Life with Chef Joseph Yoon of Brooklyn Bugs

$15 – $20

Divya Anantharaman, of Gotham Taxidermy

Nov 6

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Introduction to Taxidermy with Divya Anantharaman of Gotham Taxidermy

$15 – $20

Oct 23

Featured 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Sci-Fi Family Halloween

$10 – $15

dried leaves on paper from an American chestnut tree

Oct 21

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: American Chestnut

Oct 3

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Placed Notes Opus 2, 3 & 4

Exterior view of the Staten Island Museum building with greek revival columns and the connecting brick hyphen to the next building. Grass is in the forground

Oct 2

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

[Postponed] Presentation: Site Unseen – Civil War Draft Riots and William Olliffe’s Diary

$5 – $10

A photograph of an open diary, white pages with black handwriting in script.

Oct 2

All day

Podcast: Site Unseen – Draft Riots

Artists displaying her work outdoors

Sep 25

11:00 am – 5:00 pm

71st Annual Fence Show

Yellow background with insects pinned in a kaleidoscope pattern.

Sep 19

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Artist Talk: Jennifer Angus

Collagraph print of a street scene with a white road and grey houses

Aug 12

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights: Printmaking Collagraphs

$30 – $35

Picture of the Staten Island Museum, greek revival columbs from the side with sunset in the backround and dark trees on each side

Aug 5

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights: Shore to Shore Scavenger Hunt III

$30 – $35

Jul 29

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights: Sailors’ Valentine

$30 – $35

Children searching for moths with flashlight and a net on a dark night.

Jul 24

8:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Moth Night – In Person

$5 – $10

A handful of adult cicadas, black with red eyes, on a small branch.

Jul 17

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Science Talk: Brood X Sounding Off

Night sky with white sketched cicadas, children lit up by flashlight and white text that reads night science discovery kit 2021 volume II

Jul 17

Saturday, July 17, 2021 – Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Night Science Discovery Kit – Volume II

Yellow background with insects pinned in a kaleidoscope pattern.

Jul 16

Featured 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Jennifer Angus: Magicicada New Exhibition

Florence Spearing Randolph and Drusilla Poole

Jun 19

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Juneteenth at the Staten Island Museum

Jun 19

All day

Super Science: What is a Bioindicator?

Vintage cars shown driving through a flooded street

Jun 17

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Stumped

Jun 5

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Family Art To-Go: Wooden Mosaics

$5 – $8

Two story hotel from the year 1900

May 20

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Have you heard about Aaron Burr, Sir?

May 8

All day

Super Science: Do Birds Have Teeth?

May 1

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Family Art To-Go: Funky Frames

$5 – $8

Apr 24

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Family Art To-Go: Marble Runs and Crazy Mazes

$5 – $8

Yellow box with tulip image and text reading Earth Day Celebration How To Festival

Apr 22

Featured All day

Earth Day How-To Fest

Woman sitting on steps with a dog

Apr 15

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Olive Earle and the Natural World

Mar 20

All day

Super Science: Biodiversity in a Box

Woman with microscope

Mar 18

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Elizabeth Britton and Her Mosses

Mar 6

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Family Art Workshop: Hanging Mobiles

Feb 20

All day

Super Science: Water Critters

Feb 18

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Drusilla Poole and Local Suffragists in Their Own Words

Feb 13

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Maedeup (Korean Knots) Art Workshop

$10 – $15

Feb 12

All day

Korean Lunar New Year – At Home!

Feb 6

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Family Art Workshop: Suncatcher

Jan 23

All day

Super Science: Camouflage

Jan 21

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Artist Raphael Soyer

Jan 9

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Family Art Workshop: Clay Coil Pots

Dec 19

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Super Science: Hibernation, Migration, Adaptation

Dec 12

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Family Art Workshop: Winter Landscape Diorama

Dec 5

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Zine Workshop with Staten Island Zine League

Nov 21

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Super Science: Fossil Dig

Nov 18

Wednesday, November 18, 2020 – Monday, January 4, 2021

NYICFF Kid Flicks!

$5 – $6.99

Nov 15

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The True Grit of the Suffragists

Photograph of the Richmond Borough Woman Suffrage Party Tent at the Fair

Nov 7

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Family Art Workshop: Papier Mache Teacup

Oct 24

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Super Science: Halloween Edition! Mad About Mummies

A large bird sitting on sparse branches

Oct 24

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Pop-Up Bird Walk! Wolfe’s Pond Park

Oct 18

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Poet Laureate Presents: Women’s Right to Vote

A large bird sitting on sparse branches

Oct 8

11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Pop-Up Bird and Nature Walk!

family programs photo

Oct 3

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Family Art Workshop: Neighborhood Collage

Artists displaying her work outdoors

Sep 26

All day

70th Annual (Virtual) Fence Show

Sep 19

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Super Science: Animal Tracks

Sep 10

8:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Arise: Virtual Gala

Ice cream

Aug 22

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Super Science: Keep it Cool – Ice Cream Science

Sculpture by Susan Grabel

Aug 6

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights: Paper Casting with Susan Grabel

$20 – $25

family programs photo

Aug 1

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Family Art Workshops: Landscapes

Detail of textile by Antonia Perez

Jul 30

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights: Plarn Textiles with Antonia Perez

$20 – $25

Suffrage scholars panel

Jul 26

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Panel Discussion: Perspectives on the Suffrage Centennial

Free/Donations Welcome

Flowers and butterfly

Jul 25

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Super Science: Plants and Pollinators

Creating natural dye prints

Jul 23

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights: Hapa-Zome Natural Dye Printing with Sajata Epps

$20 – $25

Moth Night Graphic

Jul 18

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Moth Night

Kids in front of a wall of insects

Jul 11

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Family Art Workshops: Exotic Insect Collage

Jun 27

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Super Science: Today’s Forecast – Weather!

Rolled paper in the shape of a star collage

May 2

All day

Family Art Workshops: Paper Quilling

Earth Day Celebration postcard

Apr 25

All day

Earth Day How-To Festival 2020