Be a Volunteer
Are you interested in science, history, space, anthropology, or mammals?
Do you enjoy nature, animals, or plants?
Would you like to step back in time?
Are you a people person?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you should consider volunteering at the Museums of Science & History (MoSH).
Contact
Janie Paraham
901.636.2438
[email protected]
Download Volunteer Forms:
MoSH | Pink Palace Museum & Mansion
Gallery and Discovery Cart Volunteers
Help visitors learn more about The Pink Palace Museum’s galleries, artifacts, and specimens as a gallery or discovery cart volunteer. Volunteers engage with visitors; help facilitate exhibits and educational programming and enhance the visitor’s museum experience. If you’re an educator, a retiree, science enthusiast, history buff, or student we have a role for you at MoSH.
AutoZone Dome at the Sharpe Planetarium
Volunteers are needed Tuesday- Sunday to assist with planetarium shows, ensure safety of visitors and the planetarium, and to help prepare the planetarium between shows. The volunteer position will require extended periods of standing and walking.
MoSH | Lichterman Nature Center
First Saturdays at Lichterman
Join us on the first Saturday of the month, April through July 2025, for an opportunity to volunteer at the nature center working on a variety of projects to help conserve and maintain this unique property. Projects will be seasonally appropriate and can include trail maintenance, invasive plant removal, trash clean-up, and planting native plants. To volunteers for First Saturdays, please contact Janie Best Paraham at [email protected] or call 901-636-2438.
Backyard Wildlife Center Volunteers
Learn about native wildlife as you assist with the care and feeding of the animals at Lichterman’s Backyard Wildlife Center.
Greenhouse Volunteers
Plant lovers are needed to help in Lichterman’s Plant Propagation Center Wednesdays through Saturdays. Volunteers will assist with weeding, watering and propagating plants in the Greenhouse. Volunteers must be physically able to assist with all aspects of plant bed maintenance.
To promote a safe work environment, criminal background checks are conducted on all adult applicants. All volunteers must adhere to the City of Memphis Respectful Workplace Policy.