Get Involved

There are a range of duties volunteers undertake including;

• Greeting visitors to the Museum
• Make regular ‘walk throughs’ of the Hunterian to engage with visitors, answering visitor enquiries about the exhibition and displays and pointing out highlights of the collections
• Getting out objects from the handling collection to engage with visitors
• Conducting building artwork tours (with support) to small groups
• Gallery invigilation during temporary exhibitions
• Supporting shop sales using a cashless system

Museum volunteers are requested to volunteer when then Hunterian Museum is open to the public. Tuesday-Saturday, most volunteer shifts are 11am to 4pm including a break, but shifts can be adapted to suit individual volunteers availability.  A minimum commitment, normally of two days a month depending on role is requested - weekdays and/or weekends. Volunteers for Saturdays are especially welcome.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please contact the Museum Supervisors, for further information or to request an application form: [email protected]

The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England is currently recruiting a team of Learning Volunteers to support the delivery of a new schools’ programme to be launched in September at the College headquarters at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in central London.

The new schools programme will include bespoke workshops to cover a range of National Curriculum subjects. The workshops are aimed at 14-18 year old secondary school students, with other visits offered to BTEC and other Further Education learners.

As a Learning Volunteer, you will be supporting the delivery of the schools’ programme including welcoming classes to the Museum, leading introductions to the collections, supporting workshop facilitators, giving talks to students, answering their questions, leading object handling sessions and supporting surgical skills demonstrations. This is an exciting opportunity to support young people studying: healthcare, the history of medicine, biology and English literature and to develop personal and professional experience working with young people in a world-class museum.

Previous volunteers have been able to use their experience to progress in museum and heritage education studies as well as early careers in teaching.

Learning Volunteers are requested to work between 10am and 4pm Mondays, Tuesdays and/or Thursdays during term time. As part of the Hunterian public engagement programme, the Museum also offers activities for families during school holidays and Learning Volunteers are welcome to support other public engagement programming.

If you are interested in becoming a Learning Volunteer please contact the Senior Museum Learning Co-ordinator, Anouk Sallansonnet, for further information : [email protected]