Interested in volunteering?
The Genesee Country Village & Museum involves many volunteers in dynamic and engaging opportunities and relies on volunteers to successfully assist in running many of our programs and events.
To apply, email a completed application to our Volunteer Volunteer Services Office at volunteers@gcv.org or call us at (585) 294-8225 and let us know you would like an application mailed to you!
Adult Volunteer Application
Monthly Volunteer Information Meetings..
If you are interested in learning about the volunteer program at GCV&M consider attending one of our Volunteer Information Meetings held on the Second Monday of each month from January through October. Meetings are held in the Meeting Center at the Museum to the right of Admissions. Meetings are from 7 - 8:30 pm.
The 2013 Meeting dates are:
January 14; February 11; March 11; April 8; May 13;
June 10; July 8; August 12; September 9; October 8.
No reservation is required - stop by and find out about the opportunities that await you as a Volunteer!
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Gallery Docents
With the reopening of the John L. Wehle Gallery, we are creating a Volunteer Docent Program to assist with answering questions and offering tours in the gallery. By definition a "Docent" is a museum volunteer who provides guided tours. The John L. Wehle Gallery is seeing Docents to greet visitors, provide engaging interpretation of the history and significance of the art & artifacts in the gallery collection, and offer tours. Interested individuals must have excellent communication skills, feel at ease giving presentations and working in front of a wide variety of individuals and groups, and be able to stand for periods of time.
Patricia Tice, Gallery Curator will be conducting an intitial 4 week training program for the core group of interested volunteers; addressing the various collections within the gallery. This training will be a combination of lecture, discussion, research and reading. At the completion o fthe training you will be assessed as to youir working knowledge of various objects and works of art in the collection and your comfortability in interacting with guests. Upon successful completion of the training program, you will be asked to schedule yourself on a regular basis as Gallery Docent.
If you have an interest in becoming part of our Gallery Docent Program please download and complete the Adult Volunteer Application at the top of this page. If you are a current museum volunteer interested in the Docent Program or if you have question, please contact the Volunteer Services Department at volunteers@gcv.org or call 585-294-8225.
Library Volunteers
We are making strides to have the Stuart Bolger Research Library more accessible to the public. With key volunteers identified we are recruiting a team of interested and skilled volunteers who will work with our curatorial staff to continue the work that has been started in categorizing, sorting, preserving and overseeing our collection of books and research materials.