Volunteer to Play!

Make a positive impact on children and their families and support Minnesota Children’s Museum.

Play Guides: These are the volunteers who make up the bulk of our volunteer team. Play Guide volunteers rotate through a few different assignments throughout the museum during their shift. These assignments include activities like:

• Monitoring exhibit components and helping manage lines in places like the Laser Maze! Volunteers will greet visitors, helping them take turns and play safely.
• Assisting in The Studio. Greet visitors and introduce the arts and craft activity of the day, help maintain supplies and workspaces, engage visitors in their work and assist facilitators in running special programs.
• Assist with prep work for the galleries and the Studio. This could include cutting materials such as paper, fabric, cardboard or yarn down to specific sizes, sorting materials, prepping clay, etc.

Play Guide Volunteers can choose their shifts online for them to attend. Volunteer shifts are on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10am-1pm or 1pm-4pm. Volunteers can also sign up for multiple shifts on the same day if they wish to complete more hours for a course requirement in a shorter period or simply wish to extend their shifts. If Play Guide volunteers come as a pair or group of friends or family they can be stationed together, providing that there is no need for them to be elsewhere and they are productive together and not distracted.