Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

While John A. Noble (1913–1983) is known for having chronicled the last days of the Age of Sail through his art, he was also an advocate for the modern maritime industries that populated New York’s working waterfront in the 20th century. His oeuvre depicts as much steel as it does wood, as many diesel vessels as it does schooners, and as much active building as it does wrecks and decay. This exhibition of rarely seen lithographs, paintings, and drawings contextualizes Noble and his relationship with industry within the century in which he lived and worked.

Join us on Thursday, April 18 from 6 to 8 PM for the exhibition opening of Noble Industrial, presented in conjunction with a closing reception for Picturing the Water: The Photography of Alice Austen, featuring a gallery talk by that exhibition’s guest curator Victoria Munro at 7 PM.

This exhibition was made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and by a grant from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.

Join us on Thursday, April 11 at 7 PM for The Pirate Queen: Discovering Grace O’Malley, a virtual lecture by author Robin Maxwell and features two musical performances by Bob Wright and Jenny Kelly.

Irish-born Grace O'Malley (a.1530-1603) is one of the most famous pirates of all time. She is the subject of folk songs and sea shanties, a Broadway musical was made in her honor, and a castle in Ireland still bears her name. From the age of fourteen, she forged a career in seafaring and piracy and was considered a fierce leader at sea and a shrewd politician on land. Yet, little is known about Grace's exciting face-to-face confrontation with her nemesis, Elizabeth I of England.

In this program, Maxwell recounts that scene and others from her novel The Wild Irish and explains her process of discovering Grace O'Malley and writing the book.

This program was originally supported by public funds from Councilman Borelli of District 51 and the New York City Council in partnership with the Department for the Aging. We are sharing it now as part of our NOW virtual lecture series. It will premiere on the museum’s YouTube or at this link. No registration is required, and you can view it any time after its premiere.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Join us on Sunday, February 25 at 2 PM for The Shoreline Parks of Staten Island, a lecture by historian and author Patricia M. Salmon. This lecture will examine the history of the shoreline parks of Staten Island, how they were preserved and how the public can utilize these areas both recreationally and educationally. Conference House Park, the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, the Alice Austen House & Museum, Cedar Grove Beach, South and Midland Beaches, Wolfe’s Pond Park, Fort Wadsworth and several other sites will be featured. History, nature and culture—what a combination!

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Join us on Sunday, January 28 at 1 PM for Views of the Narrows in the 1800s, a lecture by Dr. Peter van Alfen. New York City is blessed with one of the greatest harbors in the world, protected from the ravages of the Atlantic by the wide Lower Bay and the narrow channel that separates it from the Upper Bay. Throughout the nineteenth century the Narrows between Staten Island and Brooklyn held a special fascination for numerous artists, including painters and printmakers, who produced views of the Narrows from different vantage points. In this talk we will explore these views along with contemporary maps focusing on how various structures in and around the Narrows evolved both to service commercial maritime traffic and also to fortify this important passage against naval attack.

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Culture Shop the museum's annual holiday market, returns as an in-person event on Saturday, December 2, 2023 from 11 AM to 4 PM! Over two dozen local artists and craftspeople will once offer an array of unique gifts including fine art and prints, note cards and bookmarks, handmade candles and soap, pottery, jewelry, textiles, and more!

Live holiday music at 2 PM!

Vendors include: August Moon Jewelry, Omar K. Aviles, Bee Baa Art Jewelry, Nancy & Chris Benbow, Irma Bohorquez-Geisler, Pamela Calstein, Chapman Grafik, Laura Del Prete, Elle Finn, Elysian Earth Jewelry, Fundaroma Candle, Ericka Hamburg, Hey, Dollface!, Island Art Center, Linda Klein, Patricia Landi, Diane Matyas, Robert Padovano, Donna Pagano, Janice Patrignani, PJC Guitar Pick Jewelry & Gifts, Patricia Salmon, Sage Reynolds, Linda Rossi/Sunset Hill Designs, Fiona Tedds/The Fiona Special, The Button & Bead Lady, Tick & Tin, Sarah Yuster, and Ann-Marie Wold.

This event is part of Holiday Hop, a collaboration between the Noble Maritime Collection, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island Museum, and the Art Lab.

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

The 35th Annual John A. Noble Art Auction will be held at the museum on Friday, November 10, 2023 at 6:30 PM and online via LiveAuctioneers.

The Noble Maritime Collection's annual art auction is a Staten Island tradition. Year in and year out, work in the auction—all of which is donated by artists and art collectors—comprises an exceptional array of artistic mastery. It is the museum’s premier fundraising event with proceeds supporting exhibitions and programs for students and the broader public.

The auction preview exhibition will be on view at the museum and online beginning October 12, 2023.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Join us for this FREE family art project in the Noble Maritime Collection's Soul of Sail classroom on Sunday, October 22, 2023. All ages welcome.

Make a spooky paper pirate ship and sail it on a dark and stormy sea! Decorate your ship and sea creatures with crayons and gauze and create an ocean scene that really moves and glows!

This event is part of the Halloweekend programming at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden.

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Join us on Sunday, September 24 at 1 PM for Frederic Cozzens, Chromolithography, and the “New Navy,” a lecture by Peter van Alfen, the Chief Curator at the Numismatic Society.

By the 1880s, Staten Island marine artist Frederic Cozzens (1846–1928) had achieved notable success not just with his many book and magazine illustrations, but also with a widely popular series of chromolithograph prints (“chromos”) featuring yachts, especially the America Cup defenders, which at the time raced off of Staten Island. A lesser known series of his chromos featuring the new steel ships of the revived US Navy appeared in the early 1890s. This talk will explore Cozzens’ career, the production and role of chromos in 19th century society, and how his set of “New Navy” prints reflected growing popular support for the US Navy and the burgeoning naval arms race worldwide.

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

BRANDO! NOBLE! AUGUST 19! Join us for a FREE screening of the 1954 classic film On the Waterfront on Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 5 PM. Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, On the Waterfront won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Set in New York Harbor during John A. Noble's time on the working waterfront, the film features a cameo by the legendary Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria, the subject of the museum's current exhibition, Andrea Doria: Rescue at Sea. Dr. John Rocco, professor in the Humanities Department at SUNY Maritime College, will present an introduction to the film contextualizing it within maritime history.

Reservations are required. To reserve your spot please click on the button below.

This public program was made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; and grants from the Lily Auchincloss Foundation and the Investors Foundation.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

CloseKnit, our longest-running public program, is free and open to knitters of all skill levels. We donate the goods members make to community charities including the The Seamen's Church Institute's Christmas at Sea program and the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless. Consider joining us, or tell a knitter that you know!

Led by the Folk Music Society of New York, this program is really gaining in popularity and offers a great opportunity to experience authentic, time-honored maritime songs in an appropriately historic setting. The sessions are free and family friendly, and you are encouraged to sing along if the mood strikes you! If you can't make it this weekend, we hold a session on the third Sunday of every month.

Join us on Sunday, June 4 at 1 PM for William James Bennett’s Aquatint Views of New York Harbor and Staten Island, a lecture by Peter van Alfen, the Chief Curator at the Numismatic Society.

William James Bennett arrived in New York City in the mid-1820s from England, where he had mastered both watercolor painting and aquatint printmaking, an exacting and difficult type of printmaking that enjoyed a brief moment of popularity in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Over the next twenty years until his death in 1844, Bennett produced some of the most remarkable vistas of pre-Civil War America known today, including scenes of New York Harbor and Staten Island. This talk will discuss the aquatint process and Bennett’s place in the early American art scene before turning to a selection of Bennett’s prints illustrating the Harbor and Staten Island, with particular attention paid to the nautical oddities and maritime mysteries depicted in the prints.