Join Us: Jobs & Volunteer Opportunities

Each year the YHC hires several highly motivated individuals to serve as Museum Attendants. Their job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Daily Opening and Closing of the Museum
• Meeting and greeting visitors
• Providing information about the Museum, its exhibits, the Historic District, Yellowstone National Park, and the Town of West Yellowstone
• Sale of Museum Store items
• Providing information about and selling Museum admission passes
• Routine Museum maintenance - trash removal, restroom cleaning, exhibit cleaning
• Program presentations
• Walking tours of the Historic District
• Driving historic bus to and from storage garage (requires specialized training)

Applicants must be able to complete the tasks listed above, provide personal references, and agree to a review of background information.

Click Here for an application for employment.


The Yellowstone Historic Center welcomes individuals, families, or groups who would like to assist us with our many projects. We need assistance with on-going and routine tasks, staffing the Museum Information Desk, archive management, helping to guide tours of the Historic District, and much more!

Please use this volunteer application which you can complete and send to us.

Here are some of the areas with which you might like to assist:


Facility Maintenance

• Spring and fall cleaning and opening/closing of the museum (Hang/remove shutters, remove snow and ice, clean floors, clean display cases)
• Routine cleaning of the museum (clean cases, sweep and vacuum floors, clean restrooms, remove trash, change light bulbs, etc)
• Minor building repairs (repair gutters, etc.)
• Minor construction projects in the museum (build shelving, storage, exhibits)
• Grounds keeping (weeding, care of flower beds and planters)

Archive Management

• Inventorying collections
• Cataloguing

Museum/Historic District Tours and Present Programs

• Lead groups on tours of the Historic District or through the Museum
• Present programs in the Museum (Power Point Programs & Q&A, children's programs, history programs)
• Marketing - distribute and post flyers and replenish brochures and rack cards at advertizing points

Museum Information Desk Attendant

• Greet Museum Visitors
• Provide information about the Museum, Yellowstone, and West Yellowstone
• Sell Museum Store items and admission passes

Computer tasks

• Data entry
• Graphic design - brochures, flyers

Clerical

• Filing
• Mailings

Special Events

• Planning and advertizing
• Set-up and clean-up
• Food preparation