Volunteer Opportunities

Explainers interact with visitors to enhance their experience at the museum. Explainers greet groups, demonstrate exhibits, lead informal science activities, and more. Explaining is ideal for individuals who enjoy working with the public, have excellent interpersonal and communications skills, can communicate clearly, appreciate children, can work independently, and actively move around the museum galleries. Museum educators provide initial and ongoing training.

Time Commitment: 3 Hours/weekly

Science Class Volunteers work with a staff teacher to support hands-on science for elementary students (6-12 yrs.) through lessons and experiments in the physical and natural sciences. Science classes can be for homeschool students, after school programs, or special weekend workshops. This opportunity is ideal for enthusiastic adults who love to work with children and are comfortable exploring a variety of science topics alongside students.

Time commitment 2.5 hours/week

Special Event Day Volunteers bring specific skill sets applicable to the event of the day, and interact with visitors to enhance their experience at the museum, This opportunity is ideal for individuals who enjoy working with the public, appreciate children, can work independently, and actively move around the museum grounds. Special skills include tinkering, engineering, geology, anthropology, paleontology, climatology, architecture, set design, and wildlife.

Time Commitment: Varies

Exhibit Production and Repair Volunteers help with building, painting, maintaining, and fixing exhibits. Experience with carpentry, power tools, and machinery helpful.

Time Commitment: Flexible; regular schedule preferred

Trails and Landscaping Volunteers help with trail maintenance, special plantings and weeding. Volunteers with plant identification skills may assist with plant labeling.

Time Commitment: Varies seasonally

Membership and Administration Volunteers work on a variety of projects as needed. Possibilities include staffing special events, updating database information and archiving photos, and occasional mailings. Periodically, volunteers may help create interesting, accurate and engaging content for museum publications.

Time Commitment: Varies

Photography Volunteers will help with photographing special events or exhibitions. These photos will be used for marketing and publicity purposes. Digital preferable. All photographs are owned by the Montshire Museum of Science.

Time Commitment: Varies

Gala Volunteers provide leadership and creativity to make the museum’s principal fundraiser a success, year after year. Opportunities may include procuring auction items and sponsorships, planning event décor, working with caterers, marketing the Gala and helping out on the night of the event.

Time commitment: Varies according to position. Gala volunteers are engaged primarily from January to May.

Volunteer Groups

The Montshire occasionally has projects for small groups of volunteers organized by schools or other organizations. Please contact volunteer@montshire.org for more information.