Museum and Ships Tour Guides

There are many diverse opportunities in the Museum’s volunteering program, including guiding visitors, or working behind the scenes on museum collections or fleet. The museum offers volunteers experiences such as • Tour Guide – Enhancing the visitor experience by engaging and providing information and advice about museum collections, exhibitions, and outdoor exhibits such as the historic fleet • Fleet maintenance - work alongside museum shipkeepers and shipwrights to help preserve the historic fleet • Sailing Hand - Learn and train alongside crew members to support the museum’s tall ships as sailing crew • Project Assistant - Contribute to upcoming exhibitions and programs Volunteers at the museum enjoy a range of benefits including • On the job training as well as formal classroom courses for many aspects of the museum. • Acknowledgement, support, a learning pathway to somewhere new, and a connection to a like-minded community of individuals • Discounted museum membership • Discounts in the museum’s shop and café • Access to our private Volunteer’s website • Access to our quarterly magazine, All Hands • Free museum entrance passes annually • Invitation/s to annual social events curated especially for our Volunteers • Preferential access to the extensive schedule of exhibitions and programs at the museum