Volunteer With Us

Volunteers are the lifeblood of HRMM – they give tours, lead school groups, staff the gift shop, help with public events, build things, do yard work, move docks, and make HRMM a wonderful place to visit and work. Without volunteers, we couldn’t be open as often, or serve the public as well as we do.

Click the box that says Apply Now Online! to fill out our online application, or download a paper application, fill it out by hand, and drop off, fax, or mail to HRMM.
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Volunteering Opportunities:
  • Museum Store
    • As a Museum Store Volunteer you are an essential facilitator between visitors and the museum, ensuring that visitors have an enjoyable, engaging, and memorable experience while at the museum. You will sell admissions tickets and museum store merchandise, track visitation, and answer visitor questions. Click here to become a museum store volunteer.
  • Museum Educator
    • As a Museum Educator, you are the main line of communication between the public (especially school children) and the history that HRMM conveys. You will provide guided tours of the museum and the new Kingston Home Port and Education Center exhibits, as well as facilitate and lead activities and workshops for students.
    • Volunteer opportunities include: School field trips, in-class school programs, walking tours, Rondout Lighthouse tours, giving group tours of the museum, and more!
  • Wooden Boat School
    • Volunteers are vital to the success of the Wooden Boat School programming. Volunteers can work directly with our YouthBoat Program, teaching teens to build small boats; or with our restoration projects, working with a shipwright to restore donated boats. Click here to become a volunteer with the Wooden Boat School. 
  • Digitization Assistant
    • Ideal for computer-savvy individuals with a passion for sharing history to assist the museum with the digitization of its photograph and document collection, as well as its audio and video oral history collection. Selections from these digitized collections will be shared online with the general public via the Hudson River Valley Heritage (HRVH) online digital repository (www.hrvh.org), as well as through social media and online exhibits. Click here to volunteer with our Curatorial Team.

Special thanks to some of our volunteers:
Among the museum’s many valued volunteers, the following individuals have offered their time and talents for more than one year of service: Ralph Allen, Frank Almquist, Mary Andrews, Arthur DeGasperis, Fran Drakert, Leslie Drojak,  Klaudia Frizzell, Ray Frizzell, Mark Heller, Kingston Sailing Club, Russell Lange, Bob McGilvrey, Ralph Mills, Mary Mills, John Moser, Susan Nohlgren, Anne O'Neill, Rondout Rowing Club, Ron Searl, Joan Walker, and Janet Wright, to name a few.

As a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, the Hudson River Maritime Museum is supported by private donations and memberships. HRMM does not receive any state or federal funding except through competitive, project-based grants. Consider making a donation or becoming a member today.