Volunteer with us

The Museum has been lucky enough to recruit a number of volunteers over the years. We have a wide range of volunteers from students to post retirement enthusiasts. Some have even gone on to take up posts in the museum sector.

Volunteers have assisted with collections care and documentation projects such as transcribing written catalogues to computer databases, cataloguing mollusc types and producing a bibliography, maintaining specimens stored in spirit, boxing fossil fish, sorting and storing bird eggs, and many more exciting and unusual projects. This work is invaluable to the Museum and has enabled us to complete many important projects which would otherwise have been postponed.

Current projects

The Museum currently has a number of projects running including:

• The cataloguing of over 30,000 dry molluscs.
• Restorage and cataloging of Devonian Fossil Fish Collections.
• Conservation and storage of the internationally important Mammal-like-reptile collections.
• The reboxing and restoring the extensive Bird Egg Collections.

The reboxing of the Bird Egg Collections has been in progress for the past ten years and in the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth it even hit the headlines!  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7992911.stm

Volunteering with us

The museum currently has a full compliment of volunteers but please check this page for any future vacancies. We apologise that due to a huge amount of interest at certain times we cannot always respond to volunteer enquiries.