As part of our Arts Council England supported National Volunteer Makers Training Programme, we held a showcase conference to hear from the museums themselves who are pioneering Volunteer Makers. Our pioneers shared the steps they are taking to manage, grow, inspire and engage a community of blended volunteers while widening public participation and diversity. Take a […]
The Geffrye explores the home and the way people live. Our collections show how homes have been used and furnished over the past 400 years, reflecting changes in society and behaviour as well as style, fashion and taste. The Geffrye is a much-loved gem in the lively and creative Hoxton area of London – historically […]
My Name is Hannah Mather and I’m an emerging museum professional. I recently graduated with my MA in Museum Studies and have been working part time at Jarrow Hall as their Supervisor of Culture and Heritage. I’m also Chair of the North East Emerging Museum Professionals Group, a voluntary group which I founded back in […]
Volunteering plays a significant role in maintaining the heritage sector’s resilience and a week on, I am reflecting on the 2017 Museums Association Conference in relation to this matter. After 15 years working in galleries and museums, 11 of which have been at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, volunteers have always played a part in […]
A blog from the Arts Council on the launch of our pioneering programme, from December 2016, can be found here: www.artscouncil.org.uk/news-and-jobs/future-volunteering
Vicky Dawson explains how, through the organisation-wide adoption of Volunteer Makers, museums can achieve and evidence their core strategic aims of improving how they are run and the experience of their users. These two aims are cornerstones of Museum Accreditation, the national standard scheme for museums in which over 2,500 public museums of all sizes […]
I first saw the Corinium Volunteer Makers site when I was casually looking for volunteering opportunities in local museums. Most sites were singularly unhelpful in this search but the access to the Corinium Museum’s Volunteer Maker site was very easy. Once I started at the museum, I was bowled over by the welcome I received […]
This blog is late because the time I’d planned to write it I was sitting on the museum reception. The Holst Birthplace Museum reception is entirely staffed by volunteers, what we call a Visitor Experience Assistant. If no volunteers sign up I have to work on reception. It’s not that as curator of the museum […]
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums is a regional museum, art gallery and archives service which manages 9 museums and galleries across Tyneside and the Archives for Tyne and Wear. They have recently launched a new, creative, way to make volunteering with them much simpler and I love it! By clicking this link you can […]