Volunteering

Do you like meeting new people?  Love local history? Enjoy researching or sharing stories?

If so, you could become part of our amazing team of volunteers.

Volunteering at St Albans Museums is a great way to develop your skills, while supporting us to enhance the experience of our visitors.

Types of opportunities we offer:

Regular volunteering: schools workshop support, collection cataloguing and documentation

These require a level of regular commitment, set time slots.

Irregular volunteering: family craft activities, exhibition installation, visitor surveys

No regular commitment, set time slots.

Flexible volunteering: research, costume repair, transcribing oral history recordings

No set time slots or commitment, volunteer from home / remotely.

Some opportunities are recruited for regularly (family craft activities, collecting visitor surveys), but others (collections, exhibitions) are recruited for occasionally or only once.

Read about some past projects directly from our volunteers in the profiles below via each image.

Current volunteering opportunities:

Coming up

Deep Clean Week - 22nd to 26th July - Get involved!

Do you have a morning or afternoon free? Are you back from uni for the summer? Don't mind getting your hands dirty? Want to find out more about working in a museum?

Come and help with our 'Deep Clean' 

There are  two shifts each day:

• 10:30am - 2pm (actual cleaning shift 10:30 am - 1pm)
• 1pm - 4.30pm (actual cleaning shift 2pm - 4:30pm)

Each day, during the 1pm and 2pm lunch break, there will be a short talk / Q&A with one of the Museum team. This is a great chance to find out more about different aspects of working with museum collections.

To find out more / sign up, see the 'Join our volunteering team' section below. 

Ongoing opportunities

• Collecting visitor surveys (SAM+G, Verulamium Museum, Verulamium Park)
• Join our Black History Research Group.

Join our volunteering team

You must be aged 18 or over to volunteer.

If you are interested in any of out current volunteering opportunities:

Click on the link below to apply. Keep a record of the username and password you create for your My Impact account, you will need these to log in and view / sign up for advertised roles. You will also receive our next Volunteering Newsletter.