Become a Docent or Highlights Tour Guide
at the Yale Peabody Museum

Would You Like to Volunteer to Teach at the Museum?

You’ll learn about the Museum’s exhibitions, and teaching techniques that will help you lead Highlights Tours and informal education programs for school classes.

Learn, Teach, Meet Fascinating People

Would you like to learn about dinosaurs and share your new knowledge with others?

We will train you to become a Museum instructor!

Classes begin:

• October 20, 2008 and run on Mondays and Wednesdays
  from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. for 4 weeks
  

All classes are held at the Peabody. The $40 course fee will be refunded to instructors who teach at least 4 sessions.

Interested and want to sign up?

For more information and to register contact the Volunteer Office at 203.432.3731 or peabody.volunteers@yale.edu. Only those interested in teaching should apply to become an instructor.

Weekday Volunteer Opportunities

Would you like to learn about dinosaurs and share your knowledge with others? An enjoyment of children and learning is essential.

Classes are held at the Peabody twice a week for 5 weeks. Registration is required.

Training focuses on our most requested exhibit — the dinosaurs. All docents begin with this program. Once docents are experienced, then they may teach in other areas if they desire.

At right: Jane Shaw teaching a class in the Great Hall.

The Docent Experience at the Yale Peabody Museum

“Presenting the ‘Dinos’ program to the various student groups is very rewarding, allowing me to maintain contact with the education system from which I have since retired…it provides the feeling that one still can contribute to the development of young inquiring minds and perhaps spark a fire within…those minds to seek out more education.” — Donald G. Mitchell, North Haven



At left: Phoebe Coleman teaching a 5th grade class about Ancient Egypt.

Become a Highlights Tour Guide

Weekend Volunteer Opportunities

Highlights Tours begin in the Museum’s lobby and move through the exhibition halls, stopping at some of our most exciting and popular displays. Learn, among other things, about the history behind the founding of the Yale Peabody Museum, O.C. Marsh’s expeditions to the American West, the hunting abilities of the polar bear, and the significance of mummification during the Egyptian Old Kingdom.

Registration and Information

To register or for information on how you can become a Yale Peabody Museum docent, contact:




Jennifer Briggs
Volunteer Coordinator
203.432.3731
Fax 203.432.9816
peabody.volunteers@yale.edu

Or download and print an application to become a Yale Peabody Museum volunteer [PDF 168 KB] and mail your completed form to the Volunteer Office. Parents of volunteers under 18 must complete a “Consent to Treatment” form [PDF 105 KB].

You may type your information into these PDF forms with the latest version of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.®

Mailing address

Volunteer Office
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA

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