Description

We’re opening the doors to NI’s Transport and Industry Store for self-guided tours and we want you to help us make it an experience to remember. Our Transport and Industry store is a treasure trove of thousands of automotive, aeronautic and industrial collections that highlight our history of invention in this part of the world.

Visitors will be invited to take a self-guided tour of this special private collection, including Rex McCandless’ innovations, historic bicycles, motorbikes, planes and boats including the rare Shorts Sealand. This is a unique opportunity to see a working space unlike our visitor facing museum sites and by volunteering you will be a part of it.

Volunteers will support us to welcome audiences in a safe and enjoyable way into the stores we need additional support to keep both our visitors and our collections safe.

This role would be suitable for volunteers who:

• Have a passion for heritage and museums
• Understand the importance of museums being accessible to wide audiences and motivated to support this work
• Have a friendly demeanour and enjoy engaging with the public
• Able to follow in instructions and explain safety restrictions in a friendly manner

Volunteers must be 18 and over.

This is an active role with volunteers required to move round the stores. There is a lift available to the first floor.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Providing a warm welcome to our visitors
• Accompanying the tour to ensure health and safety is adhered to
• Helping us keep visitors and our collections safe by ensuring objects are not touched
• Supporting the team with wayfinding to make sure our visitors have an enjoyable experience
• Helping us with asking visitors to fill in evaluation forms