Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_Museum


00:01:26 1 History
00:03:41 2 Current mission
00:04:12 3 Collections
00:04:21 3.1 Art
00:06:35 3.2 History
00:07:06 3.3 Natural Science
00:07:38 3.4 Current exhibitions
00:07:48 3.4.1 Remember the Mastodon: Diversity &amp; Preservation
00:08:15 3.4.2 The Wall of Insects
00:08:32 3.4.3 Staten Island SEEN
00:09:18 3.4.4 Opening the Treasure Box: Bringing the World Home
00:09:58 3.4.5 From Farm to City
00:10:49 4 Operations at Snug Harbor
00:12:42 5 See also



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Staten Island Museum (officially the Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences) is Staten Island’s oldest cultural institution, and the only remaining general interest museum in New York City. 
Founded in 1881 by fourteen of New York City’s first “environmental activists”, the Staten Island Museum houses artifacts and specimens from ancient to contemporary periods. This “mini-Smithsonian” is rich with arts, natural sciences and local history.
The museum’s holdings are formally organized into three main collections: Natural Sciences, Fine Art, and History Archives & Library. The natural science collections encompass over 500,000 botanical, biological, anthropological and mineral specimens including bird nests and eggs, mounted animals, fossils, shells, and a significant collection of insects, including important type specimens. Based upon a 19th-century model, the art collection includes works spanning prehistory to the modern period, with representations of diverse world cultures from both the Western and Non-Western traditions. The historical collections include a library, maps and atlases, early films, audio recordings, photographs, historical objects, ephemera and archival documents reaching back to the 17th century.