Set up our Crescendo Circle Lounge before concerts and pour wine during intermission. If you are ever interested in pouring alcohol, we require that you have a valid State of Nevada Alcohol Awareness Training Card. If you are interested, we can provide you with information on how to obtain the card.
Helping sell subscriptions in the lobby before concerts and during intermission. Volunteers might also assist in selling Reno Phil merchandise.
Help with staffing tables at community events. Share your knowledge and love of the Reno Phil with others!
Administrative volunteers provide valuable office and clerical support. Duties include filing, word processing, mailings, distribution of printed materials, research and data input.
Volunteers assisting with exhibition installation become part of a team responsible for prepping, painting, labeling, and cleaning. Artifact handling training is required and provided by museum staff. Curatorial support includes assistance with data entry, research, filing and special projects.
Customer service volunteers interested in staffing the Museum Store or the admissions desk serve as the primary contact between the Museum and the general public. A friendly welcoming attitude is required. Duties include greeting and assisting guests, coat/bag check and selling gift items, tickets and tuition.
Demonstrate and operate various pieces of historic railroad equipment from the Museum’s collections in safe surroundings. Training is unique to these positions and is detailed in the equipment operations training manuals (available upon request).
Front-desk volunteers greet museum visitors, collect fees, and issue admission tickets; give directions and answer simple questions. Museum staff will train volunteers on operating the cash register and credit card terminal.
Trained volunteers lead tours for schools and other groups.
The Museum Annex is open weather permitting. Annex volunteers answer visitor questions and guide them through the equipment in the collection. Gradual learning about the locomotives and railroad cars on exhibit by reading the Museum Equipment Guide is expected. Volunteers who pass the museum’s safety test give handcar rides.