Volunteering Opportunity: Picture Margate Project Assistant

thanetmargate-museumThe Margate Museum is looking for a volunteer to work as a Project Assistant to help them with their Heritage Lottery funded project to create a catalogue and digitised record of their collection of prints, drawings, and watercolour paintings. The volunteer will also be carrying out preventative conservation measures, and would be involved in organising events to showcase and celebrate the museum’s collection.

This volunteer would be asked to give a few hours each week to the project. Training will be provided by the Museum’s staff. This would be an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand experience of working in a key role on a valuable local history project.

For more information, and for how to apply, see this link: Margate Museum: Picture Margate Project Assistant

As this role is on a voluntary basis, do bear in mind that you can have your expenses reimbursed through the Kent Experience of Work bursary. However, the role description notes that Margate Museum is also able to help with travel expenses.

Volunteering Opportunity – Visiting and Revisiting the Western Front

Want to get involved in an exciting research project exploring a fascinating aspect of the First World War?The Gateways to the First World War centre, in collaboration with the Western Front Association, is leading a project to uncover stories about battlefield visits during the 1920s and 1930s and map pilgrimage activity. The findings will be published on a public database. As part of the project they will be researching and recording data from material published in British newspapers, local and national, from this period. Each member of the team will work for a minimum of two days in at the British Library exploring its digitised newspaper collections between March and April 2017 to be followed by events showcasing the results of the research.

If you are interested in taking part in this project, see this poster, and sign-up for the Gateways to the First World War study day on battlefield tourism between 1919 and 1938, on Friday 10 February 2017 in the Swingland Room of the Marlowe Building. To sign up to attend, email gateways@kent.ac.uk.

Volunteering Opportunity – Digitisation Assistant

minster-gatehouse-museumThe Minster Gatehouse Museum on the Isle of Sheppey is looking for a Digitisation Assistant to help them with their Heritage Lottery funded project to create a digital record of its collection.

This volunteer would be asked to give one day a week to the project over the next nine months. Full training will be provided by the Museum’s IT consultant and the project coordinator. This would be an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand experience of working in a key role on a valuable local history project.

For more information, and for how to apply, see this link: Digitisation Assistant – Minster Gatehouse Museum

As this role is on a voluntary basis, do bear in mind that you can have your expenses reimbursed through the Kent Experience of Work bursary.

Volunteering Opportunity: Collections Assistant at the PWRR and Queens Museum, Dover

pwrrThe Prince of Wales Royal Regiment and Queen’s Royal Regiment Museum at Dover Castle is looking for a voluntary Collections Assistant, to play a key role in caring for their collection and to help develop and deliver their programme of exhibitions.

The Collections Assistant will be responsible for:

  • Object cataloguing
  • Condition checking
  • Photography of museum objects
  • General research
  • Preventative conservation

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Work Placements – Animate Arts Company

Animate Arts, a national award-winning arts company making high-quality participatory art projects, is offering a number of work placements throughout August,
working on a voluntary basis on a number of events and projects throughout the month. Based at the Gulbenkian and operating in the Canterbury area, these places are opportunities to get involved in a range of exciting, creative activities with members of the public from all ages and backgrounds.For details and how to apply, click the link below: