Display of Events from Saturday, March 20, 2021 – Thursday, August 3, 2023 – Staten Island Museum

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Take a break from the summer heat! Visit the Staten Island Museum. Our air conditioned galleries are the perfect place to cool off while viewing some engaging exhibits. The Museum is open Wednesday-Sunday from 11:00am-5:00pm.

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A group of people at a table working on crafts.

Aug 3

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights | Suminagashi Marbling with Janet Gonzalez

$30 – $35

Two people working on crafts at a table

Jul 27

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

SOLD OUT – Summer Nights | Botanical Resin Artwork with Janet Gonzalez

$30 – $35

Children gathered around a moth attractor

Jul 22

8:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Moth Night

$5 – $10

Materials for book making laid out.

Jul 20

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Summer Nights | Bookmaking with Ashley Frenkel

$30 – $35

A group of people at a table sipping cocktails.

Jul 13

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

SOLD OUT – Summer Nights | Art of Cocktails: Foraged

$30 – $35

An iridescent black bird sitting on a small white branch

Jun 28

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Clay Pit Pond

A photo of students working on a laptop collaged over historical documents

Jun 17

10:00 am – 11:00 am

They Did What! Using Genealogy to Uncover Our African American Past

A bird soaring through a blue sky

Jun 14

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Cedar Grove

Two young girls painting outdoors on an easel.

Jun 3

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Interactive Workshops: Part of FIGMENT NYC

A person birdwatching on a beach.

May 31

12:30 pm – 2:30 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Great Kills Park

Pinxter Azalea flower growing in the wild

May 20

12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Wildflower Walk

Staten Island Museum Gala, Friday, May 12, 2023. 7pm - 11pm at the Richmond County Country Club

May 12

7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Gala

Small bird sitting on a reed.

May 10

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Wolfe’s Pond

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

May 3

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Clove Lakes Park

Book cover of Paper Bridge. A painting of a desk and chair in a room with open door and window looking out to the sea

Apr 29

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

National Poetry Month: Readings by Ukrainian poet Vasyl Makhno with translator Olena Jennings

A person standing on a beach looking through binoculars with the water and blue sky behind them

Apr 26

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Conference House Park

Vulnerable Landscapes

Apr 22

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Vulnerable Landscapes Public Opening and Earth Day Celebration

Sunset on a deserted street with overgrown greenery and a small deer in the distance

Apr 20

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Vulnerable Landscapes: Members’ Preview

An iridescent black bird sitting on a small white branch

Apr 12

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: High Rock Park

Museum gallery with an installation of a cube on wheels covered in tags with hand written messages. A colorful mandala made with fake flowers is on the background wall.

Apr 1

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Yes, And Closing Event | Perfect Moment Review

Lina Montoya tying yellow plastic butterflies to a chain link fence.

Apr 1

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Memorial Making with Lina Montoya

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Mar 29

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Ocean Breeze

Interior of the Staten Island Ferry with taped x's on every other seat for social distancing purposes

Mar 25

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Lockdown Staten Island Documentary: How to participate

A photograph of Jahtiek Long in front of the Staten Island Ferry

Mar 23

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

Reimagining Staten Island: A guided brainstorm with Jahtiek Long

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Mar 15

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Willowbrook Park

Amanda Wu and Zach Rothman-Hicks posing in front of their installation The Resilience Was Always There

Mar 4

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

The Resilience Was Always There: Artist Talk and Story Sharing

a photograph of transcribers at the Museum next to a photograph of a fountain pen resting on an old handwritten document under a banner that says "Access, Collaboration and Equity in Genealogy Initiative Transcribe-a-thon

Feb 26

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Black History Month Transcribe-a-thon

A colorful tile mosaic

Feb 25

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Crafternoons: Mosaics with Janice Patrignani

$20 – $25

New York International Children's Film Festival Film For Kids NYICFF.ORG

Feb 24

12:00 pm – 3:00 pm

NYICFF in Your Neighborhood

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Feb 15

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Brookfield Park

Collage of film stills

Feb 12

Featured 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Kid Flicks: Celebrating Black Stories (Day 2)

$5 – $12

Collage of film stills

Feb 11

Featured 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Kid Flicks: Celebrating Black Stories (Day 1)

$5 – $12

Found flower mandala

Jan 19

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

‘Yes, And’ – artists’ panel | Impact and Inspiration: The Life of James Zappalorti

Three felt balls blue, red, and orange with a string of smaller felt balls in front, multicolored

Jan 14

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

NEW DATE! Crafternoons: Wool Felting and Dying

Jan 14

Saturday, January 14, 2023 – Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Korean Lunar New Year: An Interactive Guide to Seollal

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Jan 4

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Wolfe’s Pond Park

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Dec 21

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Great Kills Park

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Dec 7

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Blue Heron Park

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

Dec 3

11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Edible Island

Nov 17

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Yes, And Artist Talk / Conversatorio de Sí, Y (Yes, And): Arlette Cepeda

A young Black woman, Ania Nixon, holding up a collaged book in a room with people in the background.

Nov 12

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Celebrate Staten Island Is Ours! An Altered Book Exhibition

Yes, And ... I'll Have Another

Nov 10

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Yes, And … I’ll Have Another – A night out at the Museum

$35 – $50

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Nov 9

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird and Nature Walk: Conference House Park

Oct 30

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Family History Workshop with the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

Five adults pictured from the waist up in dark rain jackets facing the left on a foot bridge, holding binoculars overlooking the water.

Oct 26

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Bird Walk: Silver Lake Park

Children in halloween costumes making maps

Oct 22

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Mad Science, Magic and Mummies at the Museum

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 21

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Open House New York Weekend: This Green Building – Behind the Scenes Tour

Architectural sketch of a square walkway built over water, open air with two rooves (right and left) with a girl looking over one edge at a heron in the center.

Oct 13

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Archtober Presentation: Nature-Based Solutions and the Built Environment

Half of a house being torn down by a bulldozer on the right. Blue sky behind.

Oct 8

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Yes, And Artist Talk: Nathan Kensinger

Lions in Illyria poster with drawing of a male and female lion heads over a yellow sun above an ocean

Oct 1

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

“Lions in Illyria” | A Sensory-Friendly Performance by IlluminArt Productions

people walking in front of columned buildings with a pastel overlay

Sep 24

11:00 am – 5:00 pm

72nd Annual Fence Show and Biergarten

Aug 4

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Good on Paper: Intro to Papermaking

$30 – $35

Jul 28

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Greetings From: Mail Art with Day de Dada

$30 – $35

Children gathered around a moth attractor

Jul 23

8:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Moth Night

$5 – $10

Black and white photo of three people sitting at a table in front of computers

Jun 18

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Juneteenth Transcribe-a-thon

Jun 11

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Yes, And: Public Opening Reception

Jun 9

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Yes, And: Members’ Only Preview

May 22

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gallery Talk and Closing Reception: Magicicada

Picture of a ticket to the First Anniversary Dance Lambda Associates of Staten Island. Saturday, October 8, 1983 10pm to 3am Columbian Lyceum

May 19

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Staten Island Pridefest – LAMBDA Associates

Drawing of a woman

May 15

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Presentation: Staten Island is Ours! An Altered Book Project

Gala Celebrate 140 Years

May 13

7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Gala

Three people inside the museum planting seeds in a cup.

Apr 30

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Earth Day Celebration: Seeds and Soil

$5 – $10

Gallery of antiquities at the Staten Island Museum

Apr 28

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Unnatural History: Colonial Collecting and the Politics of Display in Natural History Museums

$5

Wambui Ippolito standing in a garden

Apr 21

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Lunch and Learn: Garden Design with Wambui Ippolito

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