Play Guide Volunteers

These are the volunteers who make up the bulk of our volunteer team. Play Guide volunteers rotate through a few different assignments throughout the museum during their shift. These assignments include activities like:

• monitoring exhibit components and helping manage lines in places like the laser maze, greeting visitors, helping children to take turns and play safely.

• Assisting in The Studio. Greet visitors and introduce the activity, help maintain supplies and workspaces, engage visitors in their work using museum learning guidelines, assist facilitators in running special programs.

• Assist with prep work for the galleries and The Studio. This could include cutting materials such as paper, fabric, cardboard or yarn down to specific sizes, sorting materials, prepping clay, etc.

Play Guide Volunteers choose their shifts online for them to attend.Thursday, Friday, and Saturday shifts. Each day typically has a morning shift, 10am-1pm and an afternoon shift, 1-4pm. Volunteers also have the opportunity to stack shifts or perform multiple shifts on the same day if they wish to complete more hours for a course requirement in a shorter period or simply wish to extend their shifts. If Play Guide volunteers come as a pair or group of friends, or family they can be stationed together, providing that there is no need for them to be elsewhere and they are productive together and not distracted.

If you are interested in volunteeringwith us,s please complete an adult application here: mcm.org/volunteer