The Arts Society Heritage Volunteers are teams of committed non-specialist volunteers who work under the guidance of curators and other professionals to help conserve our heritage.
Heritage Volunteers undertake projects for:
- Museums
- National Trust properties
- Historic houses
- Libraries and gardens
They give their time to care for collections, record documents and act as guides and stewards.
Current projects include:
- On-site conservation of books, manuscripts, archives and maps
- Cataloguing documents and archival listing
- Conservation of arms and armour, medals and military silver
- Preventative conservation of textiles, replica work and creation of period costumes
- Guiding and stewarding in museums, historic houses and gardens