*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
420 Tompkins Avenue
Staten Island, NY 10305
(718) 442-1608
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum Website »
Our Museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of Antonio Meucci Inventor of the telephone and Giuseppe Garibaldi,Italian Liberator, who sought refuge at his friend Meucci's home on Staten Island in the 1850's. Congress Recognized Meucci role in the invention of the telephone in 2002. The museum is also dedicated to preserving Italian heritage and culture and is located in Meucci's former home.
Temporary exhibit: “Kitty and Lucky, Photographs of my Aunt Concetta and Uncle Augustine,” by photographer Larry Racioppo. The exhibit chronicles the lives of Racioppo’s aunt and uncle over several decades in and around their home in Brooklyn.
Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.
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