The docent serves as the main link between the museum and the visitor, thus performing a most essential public relations role. We ask our docents to give tours twice per month, or approximately eight hours of service each month. We provide a free twelve-hour training course so that all docents will feel confident when giving tours. All docents are invited to join the High Point Museum Guild. The group hosts a planned program at each of its monthly meetings.
Guild members assist museum staff with special events and other volunteer tasks.
Volunteers who volunteer 96 hours or more per year receive a free individual membership to the High Point Historical Society. The curator of education of the High Point Museum is designated the official staff liaison to the docent corps. The Curator of Education ensures that docents receive proper and adequate training and responds to comments and concerns expressed by the docents.