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Volunteer

The Museum of Natural History has much to offer volunteers who love learning and enjoy working with other people, especially children.

Volunteer Activities

Most Museum volunteers serve as docents or tour guides. No experience is required. A variety of training materials is available covering the tour basics. Most people find they learn best by just following more experienced docents on a tour.

Thanks in large measure to volunteers, the Museum was able to offer tours to 10,000 Eastern Iowa school children last year.

Other volunteer opportunities include:

• overseeing the gift shop and answering the phones
• help with fundraising crafts projects.
• exhibit construction
• behind the scenes upkeep of the research collection
• bookkeeping and data entry associated with the collection
• photographing and documenting the research collection
• web site design

Many Museum volunteers have recently been involved with the quest to dig up a giant sloth!

Volunteer Benefits

Working with other dedicated, education-oriented volunteers and staff-members, serving the University of Iowa and meeting the public. Also:

To apply contact the Program Coordinator, or call 335-0482.