Specifically, we have unique and flexible volunteer opportunities for all ages and skills, including;
 

Museum Greeters       
Do you love chatting with your community, and getting to know visitors to our area? Be the friendly face of our village and share your knowledge. Responsible for “front-line” duties at the museum. 

 Specific Duties include:

• Welcoming guests

• Providing information on the Museum / Museum Site

• Providing tourist information

• Handling small amounts of money for gift shop purchases

• Recording visitor numbers

• Answering phones

Qualifications:

• Enjoy working with the public

• Good oral and written communication skills

• Works well independently and with a team

Time commitment: 4 - 6 hours per shift

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Museum Maintenance & Groundskeeping
Help revive the glory of our station, grounds, and rail cars! It takes a little elbow grease to keep this place on track and looking neat as a pin. Help with planting, pruning, painting, raking, building, and more!

Specific Duties:               

• General grounds maintenance duties (clearing brush, maintaining tracks, ditches, etc.                              

• Weeding and watering plant boxes in summer 

• Raking the ground in the spring/fall

• Sweeping platform and parking lot                                 

• Monitoring garbage containers

• Other duties as required

                             
Qualifications:   

• Tidy and organized                                  

• Able to multi-task                                  

• Likes working outdoors                                  

• Physically capable

                   
Time Commitment: 10 - 20 hours per month

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Museum Building Maintenance
Help to maintain our beautiful heritage CN station building and rolling stock for years to come.
 
Specific Duties: 

• Ensuring the cleanliness of the Museum/rolling stock

• Ensuring that the Museum building and equipment is in good working order

• Monitor building and report any repairs needed

• Minor repairs as approved by the Board

• Painting and touch-ups as required

• Special projects
   
  Qualifications:                

• Knowledge of Museum practices    

• General carpentry skills and familiarity with tools and their operation                             

• Tidy and organized                                  

• Able to multi-task

Time Commitment: 6 hours per month
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Event Assistant
Responsible for assisting and hosting events sponsored by the Museum. 
 

Specific Duties: 

• Help set up and tear down at the location

• Welcome and seat participants

• Help serve and replenish as required

• General clean up

​Events may include but would not be limited to:

•  Gala Dinner

• Concerts

• Movie Nights

• Social Tea, Presentations, etc

• Public events

• Holiday Lighting

• Other as assigned

 
Qualifications:                              

• Works well under a deadline                                 

• Works well independently and with a team

• Good communication skills, both oral and written                                 

• Good organizational skills

Time Commitment Varies, 4- 6 hours per event

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Heritage Animators
Are you interested in volunteering as a heritage animator? We're looking for finely dressed 1920s folk (and their families) to wait on the platform and watch for the train, as well as a boisterous conductor or two to call out the occasional 'All Aboard!' and 'Tickets! Tickets!'. Costumes and complimentary ice cream cones are provided.
 
Specific Duties: 

• Provide heritage animation in costume on and around the platform of the station

• Assume the role of a railway station patron/staff member

• Relate stories on the history of rail travel along the Eastern Shore

• Profile the history of the Railway Station in Musquodoboit Harbour                               

​Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of the history of Musquodoboit Harbour

• Likes working with the public

 
Time Commitment: 2- 4 hours per shift
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Seamstresses
Are you a whiz with a sewing machine? We're looking for someone to help us fix, repurpose, or create period costumes for the use of animators at the Museum.
 

Specific Duties:             

• Fix and mend donations of period-appropriate clothing donated to the Museum 

• Using materials provided, create period costumes for animators

• Support ongoing programs at the museum

 
Qualifications:                

• An interest and commitment to volunteering

• Skill in repairing and repurposing old clothing

• Able to take on sewing projects with confidence

 
Time Commitment: 4 to 16 hours monthly or as needed

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Your contribution will add so much to the vitality of our operation. Fill out a volunteer application form, today!

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