Interns generally work at least 20 hours per week for a period of 3-4 months. The internships are unpaid, but academic credit can be arranged in cooperation with your institution. Trained in the decorative arts and tour techniques, docents offer guided tours of the 33 museum period rooms. DAR Members volunteer about 2 days a month and serve walk-in visitors as well as special groups and school children. New docents participate in a week-long training course on the museum collection, while experienced docents benefit from monthly educational meetings and trips to local museums and cultural attractions.
Docent training takes place twice a year.
The DAR Museum is home to an outstanding collection of early American quilts. For many years area quilt enthusiasts have volunteered to help the museum maintain and study these important textiles. For the past three years members of local quilt guilds have spent hundreds of hours performing conservation work on quilts from the collection. Others have generously given their time re-folding quilts, photographing quilts, and measuring and cataloguing quilts. With the debut of a new century, we officially introduce the DAR Museum Quilt Guild.