Give independent public tours in a museum

Büro für Bürgerengagement der AWO Kreisverband Köln

Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
German native speaker
Regularly
Discussed individually
  • Arts, Music & Culture
  • Education & Language Support

About the volunteering opportunity

Our museum presents objects of applied arts and design from the Middle Ages to the present day. Our working group offers public guided tours of the permanent collection and special exhibitions.

Your Tasks

The museum's working group offers public guided tours for visitors around three times a week and also meets weekly (Thursday afternoons) in the museum for internal training in the form of presentations and meetings.

Our benefits
  • Guidance from specialists - the working group is regularly trained and supervised by the curators
  • Equipment with media / working materials
  • monthly staff meetings
  • Exchange of experience
  • weekly internal training / qualification offers
  • Liability insurance
  • regular excursions, the costs have to be covered by yourself
  • free visits to exhibitions and museum events (lectures, etc.)
  • free admission to all Cologne's municipal museums for members of the working group
  • regular information
  • Accident insurance

What's needed

Volunteers must be native German speakers.
  • Willingness to familiarize yourself independently with art history topics
  • Enjoy communicating art historical contexts and objects of the decorative arts as part of public guided tours
  • Willingness to participate in internal training courses
  • Enjoy researching and preparing presentations on historical and art historical contexts (in the museum library or from home)
  • Verbal fluency and not afraid to speak freely in front of groups of visitors

Time required

Regularly
Discussed individually
On weekdays, on weekends, during the day
  • once a week on Thursday afternoons as a group (working group)
  • about 4-6 assignments (guided tours) per year at the weekend

Location

Büro für Bürgerengagement der AWO Kreisverband Köln

The Office for Civic Commitment of the AWO Cologne is a consulting service. People who are willing to volunteer will receive advice and will be placed in organisations that work with volunteers. Further priority will be given to LESEMENTOR Cologne, young volunteers, further education and voluntary refugee work.

More about the organisation
Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
German native speaker
Regularly
Discussed individually
Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
German native speaker
Regularly
Discussed individually