VOLUNTEER

WE’RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GREAT VOLUNTEERS!

Passionate volunteers play a huge role in fueling the success of our mission to preserve and protect our shared history. NCHS wants to provide opportunities to let your enthusiasm and skills shine. If you love history, sharing your knowledge, working with people, exploring and preserving stories of the past, or being involved with an organization that makes a difference, then NCHS has a volunteer opportunity for you.

OUR VOLUNTEERS

Enhance the visitor experience at our historic sites
Help catalog donations
Clean and maintain the collection
Provide behind-the-scenes support
Welcome visitors to sites
… and more!

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Museum greeters
- The History Center and Cox House need greeters to welcome visitors, take payment, answer questions, ring up shop purchases, and more
Tour Guides
- Guides are needed to provide tours for visitors at the Cox House, Traverse des Sioux, and the Treaty Site History Center. Volunteers can work as many or as few tours as they wish.
Technology assistance
Archives and research assistance
Collections care
- Work with staff to care for thousands of artifacts. A delicate touch and patience are required.
Exhibit production
- Light construction, graphic design, handling artifacts, and more
Gardening
- We have native plant gardens at the Cox House and History Center that need a green thumb caring for them.
Committees
- Currently, we have openings on the Exhibits, Membership, and Programs committees.

OUR VOLUNTEERS IN ACTION

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On a sweltering Saturday, volunteers Brian Oviatt, Steve Hogberg, and Loren Sundboom installed a new mailbox at the History Center.

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Archives volunteer Marcy Muchow performs ongoing research for NCHS at the Lafayette-Nicollet Ledger office.

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Volunteers helped with a two-day project shuffling archives spaces to better utilize our building’s footprint.

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Military historian and NCHS volunteer Marlin Peterson is helping to set up a tent for a military exhibit.

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Cox House volunteer Richard Tostenson presents a program about Victorian life.

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Volunteers building a utility shed at the History Center.

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Dan and Elaine Deschaine handing out candy to trick-or-treaters at the Cox House.

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Board member Kate Martens greeting visitors at the History Center.

Volunteer tour guide