Fall 2024
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About the Museum
The Museum houses exhibitions featuring the museum's artifact, photograph, and document collections. Exhibitions include Bringing Up Baby, highlights of Historic Richmond Town's furniture collection that present new scholarship on the meaning and use of things like carriages, cradles, and potty chairs; Made on Staten Island, a richly detailed history of Staten Island's growth and development from its agricultural and maritime beginnings through its 19th-century industrial development; and Toys!, which features 200 of the best-loved and most fondly remembered toys of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Guided Tours:
WEDNESDAY- FRIDAY
2pm “Two Centuries Tour”
SATURDAY- SUNDAY
11am "1820s Village Life Tour “
12pm “Two Centuries Tour”
1pm "1820s Village Life Tour “
2pm “Two Centuries Tour”
“Two Centuries Tour” This walking tour is a survey of Staten Island through time - beginning with an encounter of the Native Encampment, depicting 1640s contact period, followed by the Voorlezer’s House, interpreting the early colony of Cocclestown, the Christopher House, circa 1720, which witnessed the divided loyalties of Staten Island in the Revolution, and the Guyon Lake Tysen House, which reveals the story of slavery and emancipation in 1820s New York.
"1820s Village Life Tour “ 1820s Village Life Tour focuses on the early 19th century on Staten Island, in which a young nation is rapidly expanding and grappling with the American democratic experiment. Discover the role taverns played in local society, as a gathering and polling place; learn about the trades industrious Staten Islanders worked at the Basket Maker's house and the Kruser-Finley House Broom Shop; explore an 1820s kitchen in the Guyon-Lake-Tysen House, where enslaved and emancipated Africans labored.
