Volunteers of every stripe are always needed!
Join our team to help educate our visitors, keep our grounds maintained, and protect our artifacts – you are needed and appreciated! Click on the departments below to see where your interests could be best utilized, and then, fill out the application below.
You love history, but are you sharing that love? Become a front line volunteer at one of Dallas’s oldest city parks and help support our Education staff during field trips or on weekends. We need people like you to give at least two 4-hour shifts a month, providing tours, answering questions, and sharing our mutual love of history. Training, ongoing learning opportunities, and a great network of fellow history lovers are just a few of the benefits to you.
Do you love strolling through our park-like grounds? Do you wonder why the weeds sometimes get out of control? Though the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation Department provides basic landscape care, we need your help in keeping the grounds tidy. Grounds volunteers meet on the 1st Saturday of the month to care for our gardens, conduct small repairs, and assist in general grounds upkeep. It’s a great chance to give back to this historic park and perhaps make a few new friends along the way. Handymen, contractors, or other skilled laborers are welcome for larger repair projects.
Do you love “old stuff?” Can you spend hours browsing at an antique store? Then volunteering in the Curatorial Department might be for you! Curatorial volunteers help care for tens of thousands of artifacts at Old City Park, both those on display and those that are in storage. Responsibilities include handling museum artifacts and maintaining the interior exhibit spaces. Curatorial volunteers should have some interest in the field, the physical ability to move artifacts, the ability to bend and kneel, and attention to detail. We need people like you to give at least two 4-hours shifts a month. Training must be completed before you are allowed behind the barriers. Unique access and behind the scenes knowledge are just a few of the benefits to you.
To become a volunteer at Old City Park:
- Fill out our online Volunteer application below.
- Contact volunteer@oldcityparkdallas.org with any further questions about becoming a volunteer.