Who can volunteer for White Gloves Gang?

All museum professionals and museum studies students, especially those with hands-on experience with or interest in collections care and management, are welcome to participate. Share your interest in volunteering for the 2025 Annual Conference White Gloves Day of Service.

You can choose whether you would like to spend the days at a museum similar to ones you are familiar with—or try something completely different.

When is the White Gloves Gang Day of Service?

At the 2025 Annual Conference, White Gloves Day will be held on Tuesday, October 28 at sites in and around Pittsburgh, approximently 10 am-4 pm.

The White Gloves Gang Day of Service is typically held the 1st day of the Annual Meeting (mid-October).

Is your site interested in receiving volunteers? Interested in being a White Gloves volunteer? Contact director@midatlanticmuseums.org.

What else should I know about WGG?

It’s FREE to participate and you don’t have to be registered for the conference to attend (but it would be nice)!

Museums provide team leaders and volunteers with lunch, and (logistics allowing) we generally end the day with all the teams together for a social celebration.

MAAM thanks White Gloves volunteers by inviting them as guests (gratis) to the Opening Conference Reception, immediately following the service projects.

One of the great treats of the event, besides getting to work in a museum space that is not your own, is meeting and swapping knowledge with colleagues in the field!

2025 Important Dates:

• September 15 is the deadline for expression of interest by host sites
•  September 25 (or when slots are filled) applications/ virtual discussion with committee members for host site projects
• September 30 is deadline to express interest to volunteer

Want to sponsor supplies for the White Gloves Gang?

Support the White Gloves Gang, a service branch of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. The White Gloves Gang aims to assemble in advance specific materials and minor equipment in support of each selected project at smaller museums in the area surrounding the Annual Conference location. Projects typically include inventorying collections, rehousing objects, rolling textiles, scanning documents, numbering objects and more. Sponsors and volunteers are acknowledged at the Opening Reception. 

Support with a financial donation OR donation of materials (the value of materials donated will determine the package you receive from MAAM).

For financial or in-kind donations, contact: director@midatlanticmuseusms.org