The Naval Academy Museum has a variety of positions available to volunteers.  If you like meeting and talking to people, you may welcome visitors to the Museum, answering their questions, and answer the phone.  With even modest computer skills, you may help catalog our large collection of historic artifacts and art.  And, you may join the weekly meeting of the Naval Academy Model Ship Club and work on your own model or help take care of the Museum's historic dockyard models.

Reception

If you enjoy people, the Museum can use your services in the Director's Office.  Duties include answering the phone and recording telephone messages for the Director and the Museum staff, greeting visitors, and answering questions for them and for midshipmen.  A general knowledge of the Naval Academy and of naval history is helpful, but not required.  The Museum staff is available to provide help and answer your questions.

An important part of this position is to provide a presence in the Director's Office when the secretary is not available.  Two-hour and four hour shifts are available.  In particular, we need volunteers to work weekends.  Generally, the Museum needs one volunteer from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. each week day, as well as Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and any time on weekends.

If you are interested in providing your services for these vital museum functions, please contact Mr. Donald Leonard in Preble Hall or at 410-293-5255.

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Data Entry

The Naval Academy Museum has a wonderful and exciting collection of artifacts and art that relate to the history of the U.S. Navy and of the Naval Academy.  If you are comfortable, but not necessarily highly skilled, with computers, and want to work with the Museum's collection of valuable historical artifacts, a data entry position might be right for you.

The Museum has been acquiring artifacts for more than 150 years; some 40,000 items are now in our collection. The paper records that have been maintained on these items need to be converted to computer formats.  Translating those records requires some typing skills.  Additionally, the Museum receives new items on a regular basis.  These must be registered, so that we have a permanent record of the items.

The Museum can use two volunteers for each two or four hour shift each weekday.  If you are interested in providing your services for these vital museum functions, please contact Mr. Donald Leonard in Preble Hall or at 410-293-5255.

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Ship Model Club

The ship models activity at the Museum is supported by a group of volunteers organized under the U.S. Naval Academy Ship Model Society.  The primary purpose of the Society is to support the Naval Academy museum, under the Museum's Curator of Ship Models, in the maintenance, preservation, and display of its ship model collection. The club, open to civilians and midshipmen, meets on Thursday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.  For more information, please contact the Curator of Ship Models, Mr. Donald R. Preul in Preble Hall or call 410-293-5260.

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Mentoring

The Anne Arundel County Public School Mentorship Program is sponsored by the Gifted/Talented/Advanced programs office.  The mentor and student complete specific responsibilities such as cataloging times in the Museum's general collection or for the Beverley R. Robinson Collection of historic naval prints.  Students in the Mentorship Program receive alternative credit in the subject area of their mentorship and are required to complete 66 hours each semester. The mentor, one of the Museum's curators, offers a supportive and educational environment in which new ideas and skills are learned in addition to providing a service to the Museum.

For information on the Mentorship Program with the Naval Academy Museum, contact Mr. James Cheevers in PrebleHall or call
410-293-2109; to work with the Beverley R. Robinson Collection, contact Ms. Sigrid Trumpy in Halligan Hall or call 410-293-3250.

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