Enjoy insider news from the Virginia Living Museum's Volunteer Services Department where over 550 active volunteers make the museum a wildly successful place to visit! 
National Volunteer Week in the United States was first established in 1974 by President Richard Nixon. Later, in 1989, the entirety of April was designated National Volunteer Month. Like the Virginia Living Museum itself, National Volunteer Week has expanded exponentially over the years since…
As a volunteer, life’s an adventure – especially at the VLM! From now until April 21, 2019, the VLM is offering an exclusive interactive guest experience called American Adventure, a choose-your-own-adventure type maze. American Adventure is unique because it blends historical accuracy with the entertainment…
Here is some insight from one of our dedicated volunteers: Katelyn Hoisington. Katelyn has helped with numerous conservation and education projects around the museum. Microplastics: There’s nothing small about them! Marine microplastics are small in size, yet are a pretty big deal! Plastic is such…
The VLM is one of the volunteering programs in the Hampton Roads area that’s based on educational development and enrichment. Each activity-oriented program is presented in a relaxed, hands-on format and includes classroom instruction combined with opportunities to examine specimens from the Museum’s extensive collections…
This summer, the VLM truly is your volunteer destination! Who doesn’t love dinosaurs? The VLM’s Dinosaur Discovery trail debuted in Fall 2016, complete with a paleo dig camp play area and 16 model dinos. Visitors and volunteers alike agree that Dino Discovery Trail has been…
February 22, 2018 The Chesapeake Bay Touch Tank is by far the most popular destination year round at the VLM. While most of the museum’s exhibits are welcoming to all ages, the Touch Tank is the destination where kids and kids-at-heart can enjoy and understand…
The Virginia Living Museum (VLM) is lucky. It’s lucky to be engaged with its community, it’s lucky to have so many volunteers, and most importantly, it’s lucky to have such appraisal from the people that know it. Though it started off small, the museum has…
Imagine this. You walk up to a large building, dancing with the promise of live animal experiences, and rather than going in as a guest… you follow the staff. You enter a generally “off limits” door with signs telling you that you shouldn’t enter them…
August 17, 2016 In April of 2016 the Virginia Living Museum’s Volunteer Program was recognized by Volunteer Hampton Roads for Non-Profit Volunteer Program Excellence. Each spring Volunteer Hampton Roads chooses volunteer programs and individuals from the region and honors them for most outstanding volunteers based on their…
Mission Volunteering: Service Enterprise Initiative: CERTIFIED! “Volunteers are at the heart of what we do. They are how we get our work done, we couldn’t do half of what we do without them, and the Service Enterprise process has strengthened that notion”…
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