Volunteers – Museum Of Communication
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Volunteers
Harry decides to use weedkiller!
Erecting Racking (Longannet Power Station)
Exhibition preparation
Tom, Dick and Harry ready for work
Acquiring!
It's hard work watching Dave
Dave working on the new floor
Board meeting.
Preparing to move
Dorothy introduces 90 yo Robert Kennedy to the museum. The first of many weekly visits
The MoC is an entirely volunteer-run organisation, and as an independent museum, has no external funding. Although we have no wages or staff overheads to pay, we still have to find several hundred pounds each month, just for heating, lighting and water! Obviously then, we have to rely on all the physical help and financial support we can get!
Obviously, our top priority is the well-being and preservation of the Collection.
We have opportunities for people with communication/engineering-related backgrounds; we also need French polishers, researchers, cataloguers, archivists and librarians.
Each year we change our Exhibition.
We have opportunities for planners, designers, set builders, guides, writers. We need people on the reception desk and people to serve the coffee.
We are aiming to raise public awareness of the Museum.
We have opportunities for people to help with publicity and promotional work – from assisting with press releases and maintaining this website to distributing leaflets and posting letters.
We aim to encourage young people into science-based careers.
We have opportunities for people to help to develop this, with visits to the Museum and on-site Workshops as well as off-site Roadshows.
We’re short of money…
We have opportunities for fundraisers and Event organisers.
We have a large building to maintain and restore.
We have opportunities for chippies, brickies, plumbers, roofers etc….. structural engineers and architects would be invaluable!
Would you like to help with any of these?
Or do you have other skills you would like to offer?
If you’d like more details, simply follow
this link
Our original website was created by our youngest Volunteer, David Robertson – then aged 15 – and formed the practical voluntary section of his Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award programme.