Play Guides

Play Guides: These are the volunteers who make up the bulk of our volunteer team. Play Guide volunteers rotate through a few different assignments throughout the museum during their shift. These assignments include activities like:

• Monitoring exhibit components and helping manage lines in fun gallery activities like the Laser Maze and Studio! Play guides will greet visitor families and help kids take turns and play safely.

• Assisting in the Studio. Greet visitors and introduce arts and craft activities, help maintain supplies and workspaces, engage visitors in their work, and assist program facilitators in running special programs.

• Assist with prep work for the galleries and the Studio. This could include cutting materials such as paper, fabric, cardboard or yarn down to specific sizes, sorting materials, prepping clay, etc.

With flexible scheduling, Play Guide Volunteers can choose each 3-hr shift online to best suit their availability. In Winter and Spring, they can choose from Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday shifts. Each day typically has a morning shift, an afternoon shift, and on select Fridays and Saturdays, an evening shift. Volunteers can also sign up multiple shifts on the same day if they wish to complete more hours for a course requirement in a shorter period or simply wish to extend their shifts. If Play Guide volunteers come as a pair or group of friends, or family they can be stationed together, providing that there is no need for them to be elsewhere and they are productive together and not distracted.

If you are interested in volunteering with us, please apply using the link below: mcm.org/volunteer

Please note that all our volunteers must pass a background check at no cost to you prior to volunteering.