VOLUNTEER AT THE MUSEUM



VOLUNTEER AT THE MUSEUM
Would you like to use some of your spare time in cultural activities? Does the museum world interest you?
Sign up in our Volunteer Program and receive, in exchange, new social and cultural experiences and skills.
Who is the volunteer?
The volunteer is a person that by choice, unselfishly and without payment, dedicates part of his time to cultural activities. Volunteering involves give (time, resources and labour) and receive (satisfaction, experience, human relations).
The volunteer is governed by the following principles:
- Solidarity: with selfless attitude the volunteer practices an activity of collective, general and public interest. Volunteering is a way of dealing with needs, problems and social interests. Voluntary activities require a common commitment that aims the improvement of collective life of the community.
- Participation: the intervention of volunteers takes place in activities of social interest.
- Complementarity: volunteers do not exit to replace human resources; they should avoid tasks that can be done by internal professional workers.
- Gratuity: the volunteer is not remunerated for exercising volunteering. Instead, it should be practiced as a result of free, ethical and very personal choice.
- Responsibility: the volunteer is responsible for all the activities that he committed to accomplish.
- Convergence: the performance of the volunteer should be oriented towards the culture and objectives of the promoter.
The volunteer performs its action due to three types of motivations:
1 - for ideological, ethical or moral reasons and a need to help the improvement of society.
2 - for personal reasons and for feel useful, in order to participate in new experiences, to developed himself as a person and to relate and work with others.
3 - the regular volunteering, specifically the one regarding the assistance to elderly people, aims the creation of ties between different generations and the enhancement of experiences that are so characteristic in this age range.