Association of Volunteer Guides

 Are you interested in becoming a Volunteer Guide?
Would you like to join a team of Volunteer Guides?

This terrific team provides high-quality guided tours
that are greatly appreciated by visitors.

· The guided tours provide an overall view of the Museum
  or focus on specific topics, such as the silver collection,
  Inuit art or the Middle Ages, to name a few.

· For school groups, four different tours are offered, based
  on the grade level (elementary to secondary) and the
  teacher’s interests. These tours are scripted by the Education
  and Community Programmes Department (ECPD).

· For adults, college and university students, guided tours
  of the permanent collection or temporary exhibitions are
  offered to organized groups or individual visitors. These
  tours are prepared by the Guides.

· The Guides are entitled to attend ongoing training
  sessions on Mondays from September to April each year.
  The Education and Community Programmes Department
  organizes lectures on various topics pertaining to upcoming
  exhibitions or subjects that could help them perfect their skills.







Qualities and skills:

· No previous experience required

· Must be highly motivated and
  enthusiastic about acquiring
  and sharing knowledge
 

 Training:

Becoming a Guide at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
is a course offered by Concordia University’s Centre
for Continuing Education in collaboration with the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts. Courses are held Thursdays,
from 9 a.m. to noon.

· Candidates who pass this course must then sign up for
  the Museum’s intensive training programme, which
  includes practical exercises, discussion groups and
  observation of guided tours. These courses take place
  at the Museum on Tuesdays in May (1 day/week).

· Candidates then have until December to finalize their
  school or adult tour, after which they are accepted as
  members of the Association of Volunteer Guides of the
  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts at the annual meeting. Guides
  become part of the team and officially assume their duties
  in January.

$ Cost: $625
     

· From September 13th
  to December 13th 2011 and
· From January 10th
  to March 27th 2012



Information:
Concordia University,
514 848-2424, ext. 3605
 

 Association of Volunteer Guides

From the 1950's, the members of the Museum’s Ladies’
Committee began providing guided tours for adults and school
groups. The Association of Volunteer Guides of the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts came into being in 1965 and began offering
guided tours of temporary exhibitions and the Museum’s
collections to visitors.

The Association of Volunteer Guides of the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts is under the responsibility of the Education and
Community Programmes Department and is represented
by an executive that includes French- and English-speaking
co-presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries and a treasurer.

The Association also organizes exclusive lectures, tours
of private collections and cultural trips for its members.
Past trips include Chicago, Amsterdam, the Hudson Valley
and Rhode Island.