Volunteers are crucial to the running of the Museum

‘Behind-the-Scenes’ volunteers often use the skills they have acquired in other walks of life to support the Museum. Their work, although unseen by Museum visitors, is essential to our programme of Heritage conservation.

Some examples of ‘Behind the Scenes’ volunteering are given below:

Education Team

The Museum welcomes groups from schools and youth groups for a ‘Living History’ experience. The Education Team organise and deliver these sessions. The work of the Education Team is rewarding and great fun. More information about the sessions delivered by the Education Team can be found on the Schools page.

Are you a good communicator? Are you interested in local history? Do you enjoy working with children and young people? If the answer to these questions is yes then please consider volunteering for the Education Team.

Publicity, Media and IT specialists

The Museum publicises its work in a number of ways. To inform people about our new exhibitions and our talks we send out a regular E-newsletter to our subscribers and press releases to local publications. We also use Facebook and this website to promote the Museum.

Do you have experience in publicity or in creating media content? If so, please get in touch.

Documentation and Research Team

The Documentation and Research volunteers meet at the Museum on a Tuesday morning.

Documentation volunteers are responsible for cataloguing the Museum’s collections. Objects must be handled carefully and accurately described.

Volunteer researchers respond to requests from members of the public. They search the Museum catalogue to find the information to answer these queries.

For these volunteer roles an interest in history together with the ability to pay attention to detail is important. If you are interested in one of these roles please get in touch.

How to Get in Touch

If any of these volunteering roles appeals to you or you have a skill that you think would be useful to the work of the Museum please get in touch:

Email: volunteering@radstockmuseum.co.uk

Tel: 01761 437722

For information about Front of House volunteering please click here.