Needs From: Volunteer Houston

The Czech Center Museum Houston is an elegant, small museum focusing on the education of the Slavic culture. Do you have ancestors who used to live in the Austro-Hungarian empire or Czechoslovakia? Do you have Czech, Slovak or Slavic roots and are generally interested in arts as well as history, than become a docent at the Czech Center Museum Houston and enjoy once per week the feeling of a small baroque palace in Texas!

We need you and your Love for knowledge!

If you care for culture, heritage, art and history, share your passion with visitors from all over the world. Become a Czech Center Museum Houston Docent! No previous experience required, just a passion for history, art and interest in meeting international visitors. For information on becoming a CCMH Docent, contact us at development@czechcenter.org

If you care for culture, heritage, art and history, share your passion with visitors from all over the world. Become a Czech Center Museum Houston Docent! No previous experience required, just a passion for history, art and interest in meeting international and local visitors. For information on becoming a CCMH Docent, contact us at development@czechcenter.org or call 713 528 2060

Please visit www.czechcenter.org

We need someone who would be happy to share fun facts about Czechs, Slovaks & Europeans on our Social Media Platforms. 

If you love Instagram, Facebook or Twitter...than this is the right opportunity for you

If you care for culture, heritage, art and history, share your passion with visitors from all over the world. Become a Czech Center Museum Houston Docent! No previous experience required, just a passion for history, art and interest in meeting international and local visitors. For information on becoming a CCMH Docent, contact us at development@czechcenter.org or call 713 528 2060

Please visit www.czechcenter.org

Founded in 1993, the Czech Center Museum Houston provides unique education experiences based on authentic objects, art, music, stories and lives of Czechs, Slovaks and people of all cultures, who left their country to seek liberty and democracy in America.

Our purpose is to inspire people to learn from those who sought freedom despite being occupied by oppressing rulers and systems. The museum strives to be an accessible resource, actively encouraging the study, appreciation, understanding and enjoyment of diverse cultures and traditions. We promote art, music and dance as well as celebrate history and stories of immigrant experiences shared by Americans.

The Czech Center Museum Houston is proud to be one of Houston’s eighteen fine museums, dedicated to the exploration and preservation of art, culture & history, and serve as a catalyst for discussion of all heritages.

Volunteering Opportunities:

Would you like to become a docent?

Docents will learn about Czech history, folk traditions, arts and culture. Docent tours are provided three times a day or by appointment with larger groups.

Would you like to become an educator for our Creative Activism Project?

Volunteer with our Creative Activism Project. This project creates awareness of important historical events and the many creative outlets used by youth in the Terezin Ghetto to express themselves.

It also gives students a voice and tools to process their own emotions and struggles through a diverse set of aesthetics.

Desired Skills and Experience

This position requires the following skills: Strong Communication Skills, Social Work, Life Coaching, Teaching, Personable, Outgoing, Improvisational skills

The Czech Center Museum offers internship programs in a variety of fields encompassing business and public administration, history, and art. Gain invaluable experience learning the in and outs of helping run a non-profit organization. Some of our current interns help run our social media channels, translate history and art materials, catalog and help preserve art.

 Submit your application here.

Help with general office duties including copying, data-entry and brochure distribution; compile press kits and press clippings; assist in listing Museum information on websites. 

We have a wonderful team which works harmoniously together.

We look forward to join us!

Assist with special projects in six categories: research, digital collections, archives, transcription, administrative, and library. Computer proficiency and organizational skills needed. 

We have a wonderful team which works harmoniously together.

We are happy you wish to join us!

Our museum is closed, but we still wish to engage with our community and create virtual museum tours and educational videos. Help us write a script and present your video tour.

No worries, you don't need to know anything about this topic. This opportunity gives you the ability to prepare and learn while shooting videos for our online followers. You don't need to worry about mistakes, lacking knowledge, etc...since you will be able to record your videos and edit them.

Just bring some passion for history and curiosity to learn new things.

Concerning Covid-19:
You will be working in safe conditions with little interaction with others. We practice social-distancing and make sure that you stay safe. Our museum is closed to the public, and we keep all our volunteers safely spaced out throughout the museum.

Curators are in charge of a collection of exhibits in a museum or art gallery. Their job is to develop ways in which objects, archives and artworks can be interpreted, through exhibitions, publications, events and audio-visual presentations. 

We give you the chance to join us and learn more about curatorial work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAgcavoAuI&t=5s

The Czech Center Museum offers internship programs in a variety of fields encompassing business and public administration, history, and art. Gain invaluable experience learning the in and outs of helping run a non-profit organization. Some of our current interns help run our social media channels, translate history and art materials, catalog and help preserve art.

Submit your application here.

https://www.czechcenter.org/internship-opportunities

We need someone who would like to donate their time and help us at our museum events.

The volunteer would need to have a TABC license.

We need someone who would like to help us with our art historical research and collection management.

Concerning Covid-19:
You will be working in safe conditions with little interaction with others. We practice social-distancing and make sure that you stay safe. Our museum is closed to the public, and we keep all our volunteers safely spaced out throughout the museum.

We wish to give you a voice and offer every student and expressive individual to participate in our Creative Activism Project. Through videos and images with #HTXCreativeActivism, share your thoughts, concerns, and wishes creatively about Social Justice. We invite everyone to contribute through Social Media and submit your pictures/videos/art to our museum. The created artifacts would then be exhibited at our museum. 

We, the CCMH, join other Museums in the District to say: We support "Black lives matter." so they can be part of "All lives matter."

As a society, we were witnesses of intolerance and are still witnessing injustice against different communities; this concerns religious, gender, class, or race-based groups.

We firmly believe that injustice should not be just recognized but be addressed and systematically stopped. But how can it be done constructively? If it concerns the rights of diverse religious, cultural, racial, or LGBTQ communities, it is essential to have a dialog and find ways to address such critical issues. We can't give just a statement because the time requires it but should be able to openly discuss difficult issues such as Social Justice and serve as a platform to provide healthy ways to address our community's and societies' issues. 

As part of a beautiful and diverse community, we wish to allow everyone to voice their feelings of structural injustice. Today's technological development and possibilities of communication should be used to build a healthy public. We wish to help our growing community with creative methods to process these difficult subjects that are finally openly addressed.

Join us in our mission to give others a voice, create, and address issues to improve our community!

https://youtu.be/HReeKmL-jwU

Help us to organize our exhibits and museum!
Help us to bring a new order into our collection while we are closed to the public.
You will learn how to handle artifacts, document them, and even create exhibits.

You will be working in safe conditions with little interaction with others. We practice social-distancing and make sure that you stay safe. Our museum is closed to the public, and we keep all our volunteers safely spaced out throughout the museum.

If you prefer to work outside and enjoy the sun, instead of handling art and documents, you are welcome to help us with our garden.