Volunteer Museum Guides/Stewards - Museum of Bath Stone
Museum of Bath Stone
Volunteer guides at the Museum of Bath Stone will help to explain the museum's displays and collections to visitors.
We’re looking for brilliant communicators to bring our story to life. You’ll be responsible for supporting the delivery of an exceptional visitor experience for local, national and international visitors, looking to uncover Bath’s industrial past. Your role is to help visitors discover the secrets of bath stone, the lost underground world of the Combe Down Stone Mines, and the importance of Bath Stone in the building of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You’ll be on hand and stationed within the Main Gallery, surrounded by vibrant, immersive and informative displays; with access to resources to continue building your knowledge, and help to answer the wonderful array of questions we receive from our wonderful array of visitors! You’ll be helping our youngest visitors to discover the secret horseshoe bats hiding around the museum and, helping SEND families to enjoy our museum at their own pace, with the museum’s new sensory backpacks. As a Museum Guide, we’ll teach you how to operate a polarising microscope, to share the beauty and variety of local bath stone at a microscopic level. And much, much more…
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Conservation, Research, Communications, Empathy, Flexibility
Interest in learning history and helping others discover it. Good communication skills, Compassionate towards the needs of others.
Help support a small free museum. Meet new people. Learn about the city’s unique archaeology, ecology, geology & engineering. Develop a skillset relevant to the promotion of local heritage.
3 hours per week, fortnight, or month. At the moment we open on Friday afternoons but are looking to expand to opening on Saturdays. If you are available for volunteering on Saturdays please let us know!
BA2 5HZ
54A Combe Rd, Combe Down, Bath
The number 2 Bathcity bus runs regularly from the city centre to Combe Down. The nearest bus stop to the museum is the Combe Down Nursery. Please be aware that the museum has no dedicated car park or parking of its own. There is an courtesy/non-enforceable accessible parking bay outside of the museum however, we sadly cannot guarantee this space will be available. Street parking (no charge) is available on Combe Road, as well as on Westerleigh Road and Church Road. The museum is located in a residential area so, we do ask that you are please mindful of this when you arrive.
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