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Volunteers are the backbone of the Santa Fe Trail Center: they help visitors in the gift shop, give tours to school groups, help build exhibits, restore historic buildings, catalog artifacts, scan images, complete data entry, and much more. In fact, there is a volunteer project for every interest and skill level. Whether you love history or are simply looking for something to do, the Trail Center would love to have you come out and talk about the many volunteer opportunities available.
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Volunteers are welcome Monday through Friday between 9am and 5pm. Come in when it’s convenient for you. A few hours a week will make a difference for us.
Photographs
We need volunteers to identify and catalog historic photographs in our computer system. Staff will train volunteers in how to use the computer. Anyone interested in helping out on this project is encouraged to contact the Curator at curator@santafetrailcenter.org.
Court Records
We need volunteers to enter information from court records into our computer database. Staff will train volunteers in how to use the computer. Anyone interested in helping out on this project is encouraged to contact the Curator at curator@santafetrailcenter.org.
Reference Files
We need volunteers to work with historic documents to update our reference files. Staff will train volunteers in how to use the computer, volunteers must be able to read cursive.
Collections Management Project
A long-term project occuring at the Trail Center is the task of entering all of the museums collections records into a Collections Management database. The program, Past Perfect, will allow for easier access and clearer record keeping of the collections once all of the data has been entered. Because the museum has such extensive three dimensional, archival, and photograph collections, this will take thousands of hours and many volunteers to complete. Anyone interested in helping out on this project is encouraged to contact the Curator at curator@santafetrailcenter.org.
Tour Guides
Every year, hundreds of students come through the museum on school tours. While here a tour guide takes them through the exhibit galleries and into the historic buildings on the Trail Center grounds. These guides put in many volunteer hours researching the history of the Santa Fe Trail and Kansas, and into understanding the changes that have occured along the trail as trains and cities made their way west. If you like children and enjoy teaching contact the Education Director at ed-ex@santafetrailcenter.org.
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