Staten Island Institute of Arts and Science

The Staten Island Museum will exhibit Tales from the Mastodon in the museum’s new facility at Snug Harbor Campus. The exhibition will introduce a generation of visitors to the museum and demonstrate its redesigned exhibition strategy. The 500-square-foot mastodon exhibition helps fulfill the museum’s commitment to serve as an incubator for a new generation of naturalists and science teachers. Tales from the Mastodon will be an accessible gateway for the general public designed to increase scientific literacy. The museum will use an interdisciplinary approach, integrating art and history in support of science. Objects from all three disciplines in the collections will be used, including, cretaceous plants, plant fossils, historic photographs of the collection site, and scientific illustrations of fossils.