Front of House Volunteer, Stourbridge Glass Museum
Meet and greet the visitors, handling till machine for ticket sales and museum shop items. Front of House volunteers will be the first point when visitors arrive at the museum.
Museum open Tuesday – Sunday from April to October, between 10:30 – 16:30. Morning shift is between 10:30 – 13:30, afternoon shift is between 13:30 – 16:30.
Volunteer Tour Guide, Stourbridge Glass Museum
Tour Guide: The museum offers several types of guided tours.
- Leading small number of people to introduce museum collections upon visitors request, normally last 20-45 minutes. This will be a free tour to the visitors.
- Leading a booked group visit to the museum, normally lasts approx. 45 minutes.
This will be arranged prior to the group’s visit to the museum. If required, guided tour will be included with the fee.
- Leading a group approx. 15 people to the tunnel tours, each tours lasts approx. 30-40minutes. Tunnel tours are monthly events and they are very popular through out summer opening. Tickets are sold out very quickly.
- Leading a group approx. 15 people to the themed canal walking tours. Each tours lasts approx.. 90minutes. This is another popular paid event at the museum.
Tour Guide Volunteers are given regular trainings by the museum staff that are UK qualified Blue Badge tourist guide.
Volunteers, The Lace Guild Museum
Volunteers, The Lace Guild Museum
The Lace Guild Museum is a small independent accredited Museum run entirely by volunteers, housed in a detached Edwardian building in the heart of the Stourbridge Glass Quarter.
It is a specialist museum with a large collection of lace and lace related artefacts. The Museum collects both antique and contemporary lace. The Lace Guild CIO, a membership organisation and registered Education Charity, was founded nearly 50 years ago to encourage the up take and further knowledge about this fascinating heritage craft.
Volunteers are needed across the range of their activities. Knowledge of lace and lacemaking is not essential, but an interest in textiles helps. The Lace Guild Museum need volunteers across a range of activities including meeting and greeting visitors to the building, helping other volunteers with the museum, library and archive, photographing the collection and archive, light gardening duties to keep the small garden neat and tidy as well as helping with the sales of donated second hand items and publications.
