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Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteers in the Plank House

Next Recruitment Period Opens August 1, 2012!

Volunteers at the Washington State Historical Society play valuable roles as gallery interpreters, information desk specialists, museum representatives, and collections assistants. Volunteers offer our visitors a personal dimension in three sites filled with valuable, historically significant artifacts.

We offer a yearly recruitment period and 4-6 weeks of training for accepted volunteers. Volunteers may work at either the Washington State History Museum, assisting with school groups and general public visitors or at the Research Center cataloging and cleaning artifacts, ephemera, and images.

To Become a Volunteer

If you are interested in volunteering for the Historical Society, please check back on this site August 1, when online applications and additional important information will be available for our next recruitment period.

Misty Reese
Assistant Director of Human Resources and Administration
1911 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 798-5901
Email: mreese@wshs.wa.gov

1911 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402
(253) 272-3500
1-888-BE THERE
(253) 272-9518 Fax
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