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Volunteering

Make new friends, work with an amazing collection and gain new skills. Come and join our team of talented volunteers and you'll help make a real difference.

It’s the skills, knowledge and passion of our volunteers that helps to make our museum special. With exciting roles across the museum, our volunteers have an opportunity to make a positive impact on our visitors and enhance our understanding of the collection.

Our volunteers

A museum leaning over a table with building blocks in front of them
A museum volunteer sat at a table with building blocks in front of them
Two museum volunteers sat at a table with building blocks in front of them
A museum volunteer stood in front of a replica of the Baby computer
Two museum volunteers stood in front of a replica of the Baby computer

Current volunteering roles

Use Hearing Protection: exhibition Engagement Volunteer

Deadline: 26 April

We are creating a team of enthusiastic volunteers to be part of our upcoming Use Hearing Protection: the early years of Factory Records exhibition.

You can download details of the role and all application information here, and if you have any questions our Volunteer Management Team will be happy to help. Simply email us at volunteering@scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk.

STEM Ambassadors

If you have a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) background and would like to share your knowledge and experience with young people, then you could become a STEM Ambassador. Check our STEM section to learn more about the STEM Ambassadors Programme and the STEM Ambassador Hub Trans-Pennine managed by the Science Museum Group.

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