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Museum Volunteers is a practical handbook on the use of volunteers as interpreters within museums. Drawing on key examples of outstanding practice from the UK and North America, this book forms a unique resource on volunteerism. This book: * reviews research on the changing priorities of museums * examines a form of volunteering that has provided benefits to all participants in an activity similar to museum interpretation - student tutoring * describes and analyses the strengths of five exceptional volunteer programmes in Canada and the USA * reports the finding of five volunteer programmes...

This work reviews research on the changing priorities of museums and describes and analyses the strengths of five volunteer programmes in Canada and the USA. The book reports on the findings of five volunteer programmes set up and managed by the authors in the Science Museum, London and examines the development of these and the subsequent establishment of a permanent volunteer programme there.