Staten Island Historical Society

This is another in a series of Museum Week programs devoted to the many museums in New York City. Participating are curators, staff, directors and professional planners who offer first-hand views of the changing art and museum worlds.

The Staten Island Historical Society with Lauren McMillan, the Director of the Society. McMillan describes the collections, which includes tools for farmers and coopers. The Society began by doing a restoration of the buildings in the old county center in Richmond Town in the 1930s. They gathered materials by going door to door during the depression to collect these materials. The museum building completed in the county clerks building in 1935 and they've been there ever since. Robert Moses was a patron saint of sorts for us. The natural geographic center of the island at the head of the Fresh Kills.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 151858
Municipal archives id: T6037