Volunteer

Volunteers are essential to the Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association.

A group of kids dig with shovels in front of the Port Aransas Museum

Why Volunteer

Volunteers are the backbone of every great organization; they are what make it an integral part of the community.

Volunteers helped us make our goal of the Museum and Farley Boat Works possible. People helped paint and prep the museum building. Professionals from Port Aransas and out-of-towners helped contractors with all facets of the remodel. Volunteers and Garden Club members worked with city workers to landscape the complex. Museum docents are volunteers.

Volunteer Positions

There are a variety of ways you can contribute your skills to help us prosper and grow. Volunteer as little or as much as you can — we accept all help!

Volunteer Form

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Volunteer Position
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- Museum Docent
- Museum Maintenance
- School and Community Outreach Projects
- Teach Boat Building at Farley Boat Works
- Other
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Available Positions

Museum Docent

Docents give tours at the museum, work in the Museum Gift Shop, stock the gift shop, collect data on Museum visitors, help with Little Chapel tours, help with lecture socials serving drinks and snacks, clean the Museum, work on exhibits, help with computer skills, transcribe logs, conduct interviews and more.

Museum Maintenance

Maintain exhibits; Keep exhibit lighting working; Work with framing, poster construction and repair; Refurbish, clean, prepare or catalog exhibit artifacts on display; Organize physical artifacts and virtually archived materials to preserve all; Assist in the placement of memorial bricks and pavers; General museum upkeep to keep it looking beautiful.

School & Community Outreach Projects

Old Town Festival

Help organize activities that celebrate our community’s heritage, such as the parade, street dance, lunch and storytelling.

HG. Olsen Elementary History Club Volunteers

The club meets once a week after school to do activities and projects relating to local history — such as creating a time capsule. There are also kids’ activities in the museum, as well as an evening where the history club kids are docents.

Volunteers are needed to help set up activities for the club and provide guidance for students during activities. Volunteers working with the children may have to undergo a background check.

Aline Carter Chapel on the Dunes Poetry Contest

The Carter family hosts the contest and provides cash prizes. Open to students in grades 6-12, the contest happens in the fall so that awards can be given during a ceremony at the museum on Texas History Day in October.

Volunteers will:

help organize and staff the awards ceremony
help with event promotion
help facilitate communication between the school, the Carter family and the museum
assist in the collection, judging and preparation for publishing the poems