Museum Guide

The Museum Guide is responsible for making the Museum accessible to all different visitors by make the exhibitions come alive including, but not limited to, running group, private, and virtual experiences.

The Museum of the City of New York fosters understanding of urban life in NYC and engages visitors by interpreting the city’s past, present and future. Our Museum Guides make the connection for visitors between the Museum and the lived New Yorker experience.

Currently we are looking for freelance Museum Guides to lead experience of the following exhibitions; New York at Its Core, New York, New Music: 1980-1986, Activist New York and Puppets of New York.

This role pays $100USD per tour.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Lead 1-hour, in-person Exhibition Tours for groups of up to 25 people and/or 1-hour virtual experiences

o Required training will involve training on the tour (training pays $25/hr) and giving an observed test tour (test tour pays $100)

o Tours might be scheduled any day of the week, between 9am-5pm

• Make our Exhibitions accessible to all audiences by being able to adapt information in a way that

  each visitor can relate to

• Keep up-to-date on the subject matter of the tours you give

www.mcny.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/MuseumGuideJobPosting.pdf