Celebrate American culture and help Heritage Museums & Gardens grow by taking root in your community and becoming involved. Share your time and knowledge to inspire people of all ages while exploring, discovering and learning together!

If you are interested in becoming a Volunteer at Heritage, please fill out the Volunteer Application, and feel free to contact us at email volunteer@heritagemuseums.org or call at 508.888.3300 ext 177.

There are many opportunities to get involved, so find the one that’s right for you:

Program Volunteer: Work alongside the Heritage staff to provide a memorable, meaningful experience for our visitors during special events and public programs! Program Volunteers help with:

  • Welcoming visitors, helping with wayfinding, and recommending things to see and do around the gardens and galleries.
  • Event assistance, help with crafts, program activities, and facilitating lawn games.
  • Preparing materials, getting activities and games organized for large event days, helping sort and organize materials for Hidden Hollow, and doing behind-the-scenes administrative tasks including but not limited to sorting inventory, using a copy machine, using a lamination machine, using a paper cutter, and stuffing envelopes.

Horticulture Department: This opportunity will allow you to work in the gardens doing various duties, including weeding, mulching, fertilizing, pruning, propagation, and plant documentation. As a Horticulture Volunteer you will help Heritage maintain our beautiful public gardens enjoyed by all who visit.

Development Volunteers: This opportunity will allow you to experience the inner workings of a nonprofit organization in this extremely important job that can assist in fundraising at Heritage.

  • Event Volunteers: Heritage hosts several fundraising events and programs throughout the year from small talks to our Annual Gala. Duties of an event volunteer include, event design and setup and takedown, handing out nametags, wayfinding, welcoming guests, assisting at check-in, and acting as hosts.
  • Database Volunteers: In order to communicate effectively with our members, donors and visitors, a clean database is important. Duties of a database volunteer include record clean up, database maintenance, running reports, filing, stuffing envelopes, membership outreach, and more.

Maintenance: This opportunity will allow you to assist in the maintenance of Heritage’s buildings, exhibition spaces and grounds, doing a variety of tasks as needed and/or that match with your special skills.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to connecting with you as a potential new volunteer!