Volunteering


Membership details, advice, and case studies


Volunteer membership


For those volunteering in museums

Volunteers: careers advice


Volunteering to get ahead


Mutual benefits


The recession has led to lots of people looking for volunteering opportunities, but do museums have the capacity to help them, asks Deborah Mulhearn

01.12.2009

Staff matters


A museum's staff has always been its most important asset. Penny Ritchie Calder looks at how the workforce is changing to meet new challenges

01.01.2009

Big Society is already here


Let's not abuse it

01.09.2010

Slippery slope


Volunteers mustn't replace staff

01.03.2010

Volunteers as guiding lights


Many museums depend on volunteers, especially as tour guides. Julie Pybus explains how recruiting, training and nurturing volunteers is critical to improving the visitor experience

01.01.2005

Labour of love


Volunteers do vital work and without them many museums would find it difficult to carry on. But to get the best from people, you need to manage them effectively, says Julie Pybus

01.12.2001

Volunteers and conservation


Under expert direction and with training, volunteers can play an important role in your preventative conservation strategy, says Julie Nightingale

01.01.2006

Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire


A relatively small investment has made a vibrant gallery run entirely by volunteers an even better place to visit, says Caroline Worthington

01.12.2007

A friend indeed


Felicity Heywood meets Elizabeth Mackenzie, a passionate supporter of Friends of museums who is busier than ever in the Year of the Volunteer

01.10.2005

The write stuff


A volunteer-run museum in Birmingham tells the story of how the city was once the centre of the world pen trade. By Sharon Heal

01.11.2006