YOU can help!
If you would like to volunteer at the museum, we would love to meet you! There are many opportunities to help and many ways in which you could contribute.
We will train you!
If you are interested, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.
Internships
Tour Guide (Interpretation Intern)
Tour guides make up most of the interpretive staff at the 1890 House Museum. They give tours to visitors and educate them on Wickwire, house/museum, Cortland, regional, state, national, and global history.
Exhibits/Collections/Archives
Exhibit Interns will use the archives, library, and other historical sources to research the Wickwire family, Victorian ideals and daily living activities, Cortland and regional history, and other topics to create interesting exhibits. The 1890 House Museum also has an amazing collection of items, and is in need of people to help catalogue and rehouse a variety of things. This internship includes digital archiving, cataloguing, and collections management.
Historical Researchers will use the archives, library, and other historical sources to research the Wickwire family, Victorian ideals and daily living activities, Cortland and regional history, and other topics.
Museum Education
The 1890 House Museum aims to educate the public on the Wickwire family and industrial history. Museum Education Interns specialize in developing and strengthening the 1890 House Museum’s role as a public organization through educational programming.
Administrative
Administrative Interns will learn how to run the day to day operations of the museum, and will assist with various office duties, as well as learning various office-related skills.
Marketing
Marketing interns will help to develop, promote, and increase museum advertising for tours, exhibitions, and programs.
Interested in interning with us?
Support Cortland's Landmark Building
The impressive collections found throughout the 1890 House Museum offer visitors the opportunity to step back in time to 19th century Cortland. The unique history within the walls tells the stories of the Wickwire family, their servants, and the factory workers who toiled in Wickwire Wire Mills Factory.
OPEN HOURS
Thursdays - Saturdays
11 am – 4 pm
Sundays
12 pm - 4 pm
CONTACT US
37 Tompkins St. Cortland, NY 13045
Telephone: (607) 756 7551
Email: info@the1890house.org
