Staten Island Museum

What Staten Island Museum does

The Staten Island Museum (legally Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences) is a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) cultural institution founded in 1881 and headquartered at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, New York. As a member of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), it operates within a public-private partnership in which the City of New York owns the building via the Department of Cultural Affairs and contributes recurring operating support. The museum unifies three disciplinary collections — natural science, art, and history — under one visitor experience and serves the general public, K-12 audiences, families, and event clients across the New York metropolitan area.

Core offerings include rotating exhibitions (e.g., 'Staten Island: Making History'), a permanent collection accessible for research, an annual Fence Show fine arts festival, and a calendar of educational programs spanning field trips, in-school workshops, teacher resources, teen and family guides, and summer camps. Additional revenue lines include suggested admission ($2-$8), annual memberships, a museum store, and event rentals for weddings, corporate functions, and private parties. The museum also markets a co-branded Discovery Pass with Snug Harbor for combined venue access at $20.

The institution is supported by a broad institutional funder base — including NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Council on the Arts, NEH, NEA, Bloomberg Philanthropies, JP Morgan Chase, Hearst Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Staten Island Foundation — alongside corporate sponsorships, individual donations, planned giving, and a corporate membership program. Operations run with 38 staff, Wednesday through Sunday, 11am-5pm. The museum is currently pursuing a STEAM Center Expansion (Building B) capital project to extend programmatic capacity.

Name

Staten Island Museum

Legal name

Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences

Website

https://statenislandmuseum.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Staten Island Museum is a 501(c)(3) cultural institution founded in 1881 at Snug Harbor, combining natural science, art, and history collections with exhibitions, K-12 education programs, and event rentals for the New York metropolitan public.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cultural Museum Services

NAICS

Museums (71211)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Museum, Zoo & Attraction Gift Shops (CRALAJAG), Cultural Heritage Institutions (Archives, Historic Houses, Monuments Foundations) (THAJADAI)

Keywords

• Museum exhibitions
• Cultural education programs
• Art collections
• Natural science museum
• Event venue rentals

Headquarters

HQ city

Staten Island

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Admission fees: Revenue generated from visitor admissions. Adults $8, Students/Seniors $5, Children 2-12 $2, Members free. Discovery Pass at Snug Harbor available for $20.
2. Memberships: Annual membership program offering free admission and exclusive benefits to members.
3. Donations and contributions: Individual and corporate donations and contributions, including planned giving program.
4. Museum store/gift shop: Retail sales of unique gifts, captivating books, and Staten Island specific items.
5. Event rentals: Venue rentals for weddings, cocktail receptions, intimate dinner parties, corporate events, and staff retreats.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

The Staten Island Museum is a cultural institution that operates exhibitions, collections, and educational programs spanning natural science, art, and history. It offers paid museum admissions, rotating exhibitions, school and family education programs including field trips and summer camps, museum collections research access, a retail gift shop, membership subscriptions, and venue rental services for private and corporate events. The museum functions as a single-site cultural destination located at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, New York.

Product overview

Staten Island Museum is a cultural institution offering a unified visitor experience combining natural science, art, and history through its exhibitions, collections, education programs, and venue rentals. The museum operates as a single physical location at Snug Harbor with multiple engagement channels including on-site visits to rotating exhibitions, educational programs for schools and families, event hosting services, and a retail store. Key offerings include current exhibitions like 'Staten Island: Making History', the annual Fence Show fine arts festival, educational field trips and workshops, museum collections research access, event space rentals, and a membership program.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Museum Admissions and Visits In-person museum visits offering access to exhibitions across art, natural science, and history disciplines, open Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm.
• Exhibitions Rotating exhibitions including 'Staten Island: Making History', the '76th Annual Fence Show', and 'Here You Are: Staten Island Triennial' showcasing local artists and borough history.
• Education Programs Educational offerings including field trips to the museum, in-school workshops, teacher resources, teen and family guides, and summer camps for school-aged children.
• Collections The museum's holdings in natural science, art, and history, available for research and exhibits, including family history resources.
• Event Rentals Venue rental services for weddings, cocktail receptions, corporate events, and private parties held in museum spaces.
• Museum Store Retail shop offering unique gifts, books, and Staten Island-specific items to museum visitors.
• Memberships Annual membership program offering free admission, discounts, and exclusive benefits to members.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• City of New York / Department of Cultural AffairscoreOthersThe museum is a member of the Cultural Institutions Group (CIG), a public-private partnership with the City of New York. The City owns the building through the Department of Cultural Affairs.

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art: NYC's flagship encyclopedic museum. Operates broadly across all disciplines that Staten Island Museum touches, but at vastly greater scale; relevant for understanding donor and visitor share competition.
• American Museum of Natural History: NYC's preeminent natural science institution. Overlaps directly with Staten Island Museum's natural science collections and education programming, but at a scale and brand level that dwarfs borough peers.

Direct peers

• Staten Island Children's Museum: Co-located at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and an explicit CIG peer, focused on interactive children's exhibits. Competes for family visitors, school field trips, and youth programming on the same campus.
• Hudson River Museum: Yonkers-based multi-disciplinary museum combining art, history, and environmental science with education programming. Closely comparable in collection breadth, scale, and suburban/regional nonprofit model.
• Brooklyn Museum: Brooklyn-based encyclopedic art museum with multi-disciplinary collections, similar nonprofit/CIG operating model, comparable education programming, and overlapping NYC municipal funding sources. Most directly comparable borough-level museum peer.
• New-York Historical Society: NYC museum focused on art, history, and humanities with strong education programming and family history research resources — closely aligned with Staten Island Museum's history and family-history offerings.
• Queens Museum: Queens-based cultural institution with art, history, and educational programming. Operates within NYC's Cultural Institutions Group with city-owned facilities — a near-identical structural model to Staten Island Museum.
• Newark Museum of Art: Newark's largest museum, also multi-disciplinary (art, science, global cultures) with similar mid-sized institutional profile, education focus, and reliance on a mix of public and private funding.
• Museum of the City of New York: Manhattan-based museum dedicated to New York City history with rotating exhibitions, education programs, and a museum store. Directly comparable in mission (local history), scale, and programming mix.

Regional players

• Historic Richmond Town: Staten Island's open-air history museum and village. Operates in the same borough with an adjacent historical-preservation mission, competing for the same local visitor, education, and donor pool.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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