BATH — Maine Maritime Museum’s Volunteer Council is revving up to reach additional volunteer staff for its upcoming 2013 season. To learn about the kinds of volunteer opportunities available, the museum will be hosting informational meetings in the coming weeks to which potential volunteers are invited to attend. Recruitment parties will be scheduled between March 14 and April 15.
Front line volunteers are needed to greet visitors, provide tours of both the Bath Iron Works Shipyard and the Percy & Small Shipyard, tours of the museum’s galleries, the 1942 Grand Banks fishing Schooner, the Sherman Zwicker, and Donnell House, the museum’s Victorian Ship Builder’s Home, located on the museum campus. In addition, attendants at the “Launching a Wooden Schooner” demonstration are needed.
In order to keep all areas open for visitors all day, seven days a week, weekend coverage is especially needed in all the above areas, as well as substitutes in all areas who can be called upon to come in when regularly scheduled staff are unavailable. In addition to regularly scheduled tours, groups arriving by bus or by cruise ship are frequent visitors and require additional staff to guide them around the museum grounds.
Scheduling for regular volunteer staff is usually based on a designated day each week for a specified number of hours, ranging from one hour to three and a half hours, depending on the position. Training for new volunteers is scheduled in the spring, beginning in April and running through the middle of June. Training may run for one two-hour session or up to a series of four sessions, depending on the volunteer opportunity selected.
For more information about upcoming informational meetings and training for front line positions, please call the volunteer Office at 443-1316, ext. 350, or email harrison@maritimeme.org.
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