The Volunteer Organization at the Museum of the Rockies is 180 strong. Last year volunteers contributed over 20,000 hours sharing their time and talents with the museum and its visitors. They help at the reception desk and in the store, prepare dinosaur bones in the Bowman Fossil Bank, operate auditorium shows, give museum tours, and in the summers work at the Living History Farm.
Volunteers also help with receptions, large mailings and special projects.
Monthly volunteer meetings and newsletters keep volunteers apprised of museum events, policies and new exhibits. Training sessions for volunteers who work at the Living History Farm are held each spring. They learn how to interpret farm life in Montana at the turn of the century. Volunteer interpreters wear period clothing and demonstrate traditional agricultural and homemaking activities including blacksmithing and cooking on a wood stove. Docent-led tours of our exhibits are given weekdays, mostly to students in grades K through 12.