Opportunities From: ServeMaine

Gallery tour guides provide accessible, educational tours of the indoor museum spaces to smaller groups of guests. They interpret the story of wooden shipbuilding in Maine and the Percy & Small Shipyard using the artifacts, paintings, and stories on display throughout the museum. Their tour also seamlessly joins with the outdoor Percy & Small shipyard tour, providing depth and background information of the unique story Maine Maritime Museum tells.

Primary Responsibilities

Complete Gallery Tour Guide Training. This includes specific training hours over the course of at least two sessions in late April/early May.

Complete the a Gallery Tour leadership/staff-shadowed tour before giving tours to the public.

Give 30-minute tours of the Shipbuilder's and McEvoy galleries that tell the history and local and global significance of the museum site.

Commit to at least three tours per year to maintain guide status.

Log all volunteer hours into the museum volunteer management software, Better Impact. Training is provided.

To apply, please fill out an application on our volunteer management software, Betterimpact.

Donnell House Guides interpret Maine Maritime Museum’s Victorian home, Donnell House, for museum visitors by conducting a 20-minute walking tour of the home. The Donnell House is a 19th-century Victorian home owned by the Donnell family who operated a wooden shipyard on their property. The home is furnished to represent life during the height of the family’s success in the 1890s. The tour guide shares stories of the Donnell family and the way in which shipbuilding impacted domestic and social life in Bath. Donnell House Guides are a part of the Interpretation Volunteer team that provides educational experiences to visitors on the museum campus. Donnell House Guides work in three-hour shifts; 20-minute tours are given on request by visitors. Successful guides are comfortable with public speaking, storytelling, and engaging with a diverse audience and broad age ranges. No prior experience or maritime knowledge is required. All new Donnell House Guides complete three hours of training that includes tour content, visitor engagement strategies, and museum orientation. Donnell House Guides are supervised by the Museum Education Specialist.

Primary Responsibilities

Complete Donnell House Guide Training. This includes three training hours over the course of two sessions in late April/early May.

Complete the Donnell House Guide Practical Assessment (staff-shadowed tour) before giving tours to the public.

Give 20-minute walking tours of the historic Donnell House that tells the family history and local and global significance of the site.

Commit to at least a weekly or bi-weekly three-hour shift.Log all volunteer hours into the museum volunteer management software, Better Impact. Training is provided

To apply, please fill out an online application here: https://app.betterimpact.com/Application?OrganizationGuid=66e8699a-9bb0-4bf8-94bc-85141b40f64f&ApplicationFormNumber=1

Percy & Small Shipyard Guides provide 45-minute walking tours of the historic Percy & Shipyard to daily museum visitors and special group tours. The Percy & Small Shipyard is the United States only remaining in-tact shipyard that constructed wooden vessels. The shipyard built wooden schooners primarily for the coal trade and in 1909 built the largest wooden vessel in North America, Schooner Wyoming. The tour guide shares the shipyard’s history and stories of the shipbuilding process, the shipyard workers, and the vessels they constructed. Percy and Small Tour Guides are a part of the Interpretation Volunteer team that provides educational experiences to visitors on the museum campus. Successful guides are comfortable with public speaking, storytelling, and engaging with a diverse audience and broad age ranges. No prior shipbuilding experience or maritime knowledge is required. All new Percy & Small Shipyard Guides complete 10 hours of training that includes tour content, visitor engagement strategies, and museum orientation. Percy & Small Shipyard Guides are supervised by the Director of Education.  

Primary Responsibilities

Complete Percy & Small Shipyard Guide Training. This includes ten training hours over the course of three sessions in late April/early May.

Complete the Percy & Small Shipyard Guide Practical Assessment (staff-shadowed tour) before giving tours to the public.

Give 45-minute walking tours of the historic Percy & Small Shipyard that tells the history and local and global significance of the site.

Commit to at least three tours per year to maintain guide status.

Log all volunteer hours into the museum volunteer management software, Better Impact. Training is provided.

To apply, please fill out our online application here: https://app.betterimpact.com/Application?OrganizationGuid=66e8699a-9bb0-4bf8-94bc-85141b40f64f&ApplicationFormNumber=1