Peter Samis was the Curatorial Assistant for Painting & Sculpture, Photography, Media Arts, Architecture & Design (1988-1994), Assistant Curator of Education, Program Manager for Interactive Educational Technologies (1994-1997), Associate Curator of Education, Program Manager for Interactive Technologies (1997-2005), Co-Acting Director of Education (2004-2005) and Associate Curator of Interpretation, 2006-present (2008). Samis was raised in New York but decided to move to the Bay Area in the early 1980s. His first visit to SFMOMA was markedly disappointing compared to the New York MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, he started training as a docent in 1982 and received his valedictory docent training tour on “Henri Cartier Bresson: The Decisive Moment”. In 1994, Samis got approval from Jack Lane to pursue Interactive Educational Technologies and started three different multimedia programs: Voices and Images of California Art, Making Sense of Modern Art (the first version), and the Bay Area Artfinder. Samis also worked on various CD-ROMs on modern art in the 1990s and continued to pursue new IET programs and create a mature IET department. In this interview, Samis discusses his first experience with SFMOMA, training as a docent, importance of SFMOMA's photography collection, Henry Hopkins, David Ross and Neal Benezra, studying at SF State, becoming a curatorial assistant at SFMOMA, the educational mission at the museum, relationships with artists, IET and computers in the 80s and 90s, work on CD-ROMs on modern art, development of funding for the new IET program, and the development of a mature IET department within the museum.