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Volunteer

We are always looking to welcome new volunteers to our award-winning team.

Role:                                           Visitor Engagement Volunteers

Location:                                      West Highland Museum

Hours:                                           Variable

About the Role:                         

This role involves welcoming visitors to the museum and assisting in our gift shop.  At the heart of the role is helping visitors have a valuable and fun experience at the museum as you meet, greet, and chat to visitors.  No experience is necessary as training will be provided.  The role is flexible and free on-site parking is available for volunteers.

Complete and submit our volunteer Expression of Interest form 

Once we receive your form we will get in touch to make arrangements for you to come along and meet the team.

Role:                                               Childrens’ Activities Volunteer

Location:                                      West Highland Museum

Hours:                                            Flexible

About the Role:                         

We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative volunteer to help create and deliver fun themed craft workshops at the museum during the school holidays.  This position will involve working with young children.

Find out more:                         

Contact our Learning Officer, Flora Swietlicki at learn@westhighlandmuseum.org.uk

Role:                                               Digital Engagement Volunteers

Location:                                      Home working

Hours:                                            Flexible

About the Role:                          We are looking for budding writers, photographers, podcasters, and videographers to help create engaging digital content for our website and our social media channels.

These roles are very flexible, and volunteers can submit content on an ad hoc basis.  There are opportunities for:

  • Writing informative and interesting blogs for our website and newsletter about local history or objects in our museum
  • Creating engaging podcasts for our website about local history or objects in our museum
  • Creating interesting videos or reels about the museum and its collections for Facebook and Instagram

Find out more:         

Contact our Curator Manager, Vanessa Martin at curator@westhighlandmuseum.org.uk       

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