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===The Main Street Museum is always looking for volunteers.===  
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===Volunteer at the Main Street Museum!!!===  
  
Whether gallery sitting, researching descriptive matter for our artifacts (label writing), cataloging objects on our ditital "Catawiki" folding letters, stamping and stuffing envelopes, or creating displays, the 501(c)3 non-profit Main Street Museum is an interesting—and a fun—place to volunteer. There's always something new to challenge us! There's never a dull moment!
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The Main Street Museum is a great place to visit, and a great place to volunteer.
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You can do everything from staffing open hours (Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6 p.m.), to helping out with arranging and maintaining displays, researching and writing museum labels, bringing the refreshments or setting up for special events like concerts and First Fridays open house nights, or helping create special exhibits and special events.
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Internships are occasionally available for meaningful projects. Past interns have researched and written labels for a [[Nitrous Oxide Canister]], [[Tramps and Hobos]], [[White Tailed Deer]], [[FiestaWare]] and more.
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Interns also engage in field/study trips around Vermont and New Hampshire—to Burlington, to St. Johnsbury and the Fairbanks Museum, to historic Windsor, Vermont, and to the St. Gaudens National Park in nearby Cornish, N.H.—as well as conducting in-depth tours of the areas' varied thrift stores and other repositories of material culture for collection excursions on behalf of the Museums ever-enlarging categories of artifacts.
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Whether it be free-wheeling research, carpentry, photography, event planning, landscaping, or music - whatever it is that you like to do, we'd love to talk to you.
  
Refreshments are always welcome for our public events and opening receptions.
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E-mail us at info@mainstreetmuseum.org for more information, or call us at 802-356-2776.
  
Altho our budget is limited, there are occasionally internships available for meaningful projects. Past interns have researched and written labels for a [[Nitrous Oxide Canister]], [[Tramps and Hobos]], White Tailed [[Deer]], [[Dish and Dinnerware|FiestaWare]] and more.
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We don't really mind following rules either, as long as they make sense. [[Comportment Document|Here are ours, if you's like to read them.]]
 
 
Interns also engage in field/study trips around Vermont and New Hampshire—to Burlington, to St. Johnsbury and the Fairbanks Museum to historic Windsor, Vermont, to the St. Gaudens National Park—as well as conducting in-depth tours of the areas varied thrift stores for collection excursions on behalf of the Museums ever-enlarging categories of artifacts.
 
 
 
Please contact the Volunteer and Intern Coordinator for more information at
 
info@mainstreetmuseum.org
 

Latest revision as of 07:47, 17 September 2010

Volunteer at the Main Street Museum!!!

The Main Street Museum is a great place to visit, and a great place to volunteer. You can do everything from staffing open hours (Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6 p.m.), to helping out with arranging and maintaining displays, researching and writing museum labels, bringing the refreshments or setting up for special events like concerts and First Fridays open house nights, or helping create special exhibits and special events. Internships are occasionally available for meaningful projects. Past interns have researched and written labels for a Nitrous Oxide Canister, Tramps and Hobos, White Tailed Deer, FiestaWare and more. Interns also engage in field/study trips around Vermont and New Hampshire—to Burlington, to St. Johnsbury and the Fairbanks Museum, to historic Windsor, Vermont, and to the St. Gaudens National Park in nearby Cornish, N.H.—as well as conducting in-depth tours of the areas' varied thrift stores and other repositories of material culture for collection excursions on behalf of the Museums ever-enlarging categories of artifacts. Whether it be free-wheeling research, carpentry, photography, event planning, landscaping, or music - whatever it is that you like to do, we'd love to talk to you.

E-mail us at info@mainstreetmuseum.org for more information, or call us at 802-356-2776.

We don't really mind following rules either, as long as they make sense. Here are ours, if you's like to read them.