Museum Tour Guide

Description:

Museum Hack is spreading out from our base in NYC and looking for local residents to join our team as part-time, contractor tour guides and scav hunt facilitators for our “unconventional” museum adventures.

We craft amazing museum experiences for museum skeptics. Our best tour guides are not the center of attention - they make the Museum the star attraction. We lead with passion and charisma. The joke is, "We do museum tours for people who don't like museums."

Museum Hack uses the world-class collection at incredible museums as our playground to create "un-highlights tours" that focus on hidden works, oddities, and saucy stories. Museum Hack guides combine these stories with antics and quirky activities that get you to think about the museum experience in new ways. We also consult for Fortune 500s and top museums worldwide.

You will lead small groups of people on a fast-paced, spirited journey through incredible museums. We want guides who can share their selected objects' juicy stories and fascinating histories in an engaging, sassy and succinct way.You'll get to work with some of the coolest people around.
QUALIFICATIONS

• Background in one or more of the following: Theater, Improv, Debate, Teaching (if you were Robin Williams in Dead Poets society), Making passionate speeches about nerdy subjects to your friends, Being Awesome, or Museum Education. Art History and Science Education knowledge are a major pluses, but we want you to be a good storyteller (and party host) first and foremost.
• Warm, friendly, eager, a "people person" with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to think on your feet, be a self-starter, and a research junkie to develop your own content and tour route (our guides research and create their own tours, and they always find the best stuff).
• Desire to help corporate groups museums in a very fun way.
• Attention to detail :-)

REQUIREMENTS

• Must have flexible daytime availability (including weekends). Most events are for corporate groups.
• Must be able to stand for 2-3 hours, carry a heavy bag, and race through museum spaces at top speeds.
• Must be a local resident - or be able to reliably get the big Museums
• Must be able to work in the U.S