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Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteer with WCG!

Twenty people with name tags pose in front of a display case in the musuem
The all-volunteer crew for the day at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History.

It was great to see so many of you at the Three Ring Circus last week! In the coming months, WCG is mounting two outreach events: a Community Partnership Project (formerly known as Angels) and a Preservation Week event. We need your help! These types of events not only help WCG and the general public, but they are great opportunities for you to make new connections with other people in the field.

Community Partnership Project: On February 22, we are doing a project with the African American Civil War Museum. We will be helping to rehouse a portion of their collection and help train museum volunteers in condition reporting, rehousing, and proper care and handling of different types of objects. If you are interested in participating, please email Nancy Pollak at npollak@washingtonconservationguild.org. Please include your specialty.

Preservation Week: On May 2 from 11 am to 2 pm, we are collaborating with Fairfax Public Libraries to put on an event for the general public. The event will include a lecture, clinic, rehousing workshop, silver polishing demo, and kids’ event. We will also need a few people willing to be floaters and willing to support your colleagues by dealing with logistics on the day of the event. If you are interested in participating please email Anne Kingery-Schwartz at akingery-schwartz@washingtonconservationguild.org. Please include which of these activities you would like to help with.

A group of seven people file through boxes of delicate yellowed newsprint, adding them to new acid-free folders. New metal-edged archival boxes sit in the foreground
Rehousing The Jewish War Veteran newsletters.
Volunteers vacuuming the top of a garment rack that is close to the ceiling. One volunteer stands on a stool with a vacuum hose, while another volunteer holds the vacuum body up away from the floor.
Sometimes the vacuum hose isn’t long enough! Teamwork makes the dream work.
Two volunteers work inside a drawer. One volunteer lifts a garment.
Volunteers adding padding for flat-stored items.
Two volunteers sit at a table and a third looks on as they discuss rehousing flat archive materials
Rehousing newsletters and other paper materials.
Two volunteers hold hangers with olive green uniform jacket and slacks
Two volunteers hold hangers with garments to be hung in storage.
Two volunteers open blue metal drawers filled with a variety of hats
Preparing padding for flat storage artifacts.
Three volunteers standing in front of a large white cover in collections storage
Three volunteers smile in front of the new Tyvek dustcover for hanging costume storage rack.
Nine volunteers sit on the floor as they sew straps onto large rolls of white Tyvek
Volunteers adding twill tape ties to the new Tyvek dust covers.
Three people sit a table filled with sheets of cotton batting and bare wooden hangers. Finished padded hangers on a clothing rack in the background
Padding hangers for hanging textile storage
Twenty people with name tags pose in front of a display case in the musuem
The all-volunteer crew for the day.
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