Volunteering
Volunteering
Become a Volunteer Guide
Got a passion for Brisbane’s history during World War Two? Feel comfortable talking about military history and encouraging others to discuss it? Join the MacArthur Museum Brisbane (MMB) as a volunteer guide and tour visitors through our exhibitions.Can you spare at least two days a month to act as a guide? If so, please contact the Museum on Tuesday or Thursday by phone (32117052) between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm or email your interest to info@mmb.org.au.Volunteers learn more about the MMB. When you volunteer you become part of a large friendly team, and provide valuable support to staff and our visitors.
Our Volunteers
Become a Volunteer with the Collection Management Group
The Collection Management Group has a broad and interesting role which includes: cataloguing acquired artefacts into our Collection database; learning how to conserve and store them, through to creating small displays which bring artefact history and ’stories’ to the public. Work can vary from in-depth research to hands-on cleaning; from detailed and precise to ‘big-picture’ interpretation and understanding of artefacts, their provenance and context. Working ‘behind the scenes’, this group may interest volunteers who have skills in independent research & writing short reports; who are curious about historic items and interested to learn more; are able to organise and complete work.Being a small group, CMG provides opportunity for independent work on diverse tasks, as well as collaborative discussions to develop new processes, projects or displays. There is some scope to tailor work to interests, but there is always something interesting to work on.The CMG work at the museum on Mondays and Wednesdays. If you are able to commit a day a week for at least 6 months we would love to hear from you.For anyone undertaking Museum related studies this is an excellent opportunity to add real-life, hands-on experience to your portfolio.
Volunteers are welcome! Please get in touch
Requirements
A Volunteer guide must be able to:> Communicate with our visitors (including showing empathy). > Have an interest in sharing history. > Collect entry fees and record the information on the daily sheet. > Record and receipt the sales of merchandise. > Spend at least one 40 minute session a day welcoming visitors at the secured entrance foyer on the ground level. > Be dressed appropriately. > Abide by the Guidelines for Volunteers document and all OH&S requirements > We will show you how to do these things and be sure there's someone around to help while you learn the routines.Volunteer Guides of the MacArthur Museum Brisbane are able to borrow some of our non- reference library books.
Other volunteering activities
Some of our volunteers also help with school groups. They require a Blue Card.You may be interested in joining our Collections group who look after the cataloguing and recording of all our items collected.Others use their skills behind the scenes, in grant writing, interpretation and conservation of exhibits and maintaining our database of artefacts and documents. We are also occasionally asked to provide speakers to community groups.We’re looking for committed people who can do independent research and contribute to a friendly team.If you volunteer, you will make new friends with like minded people who share some of your interests. You will learn new aspects of the subject. You'll be the first to hear about new projects and have an opportunity to participate in them.