Callout for new guides

After two years of postponement of the Sydney Jewish Museum’s (SJM) popular volunteer guides course, the museum is excited to offer a new intake this year, with registrations closing on February 14, and the course commencing in early March.

Guides are central to the museum’s education program and visitor experience, and the Generation to Generation course offers potential guides a comprehensive program of weekly classes over a nine-month period to best prepare them.

SJM educator Lee-Anne Whitten said the course teaches all the tools that guides need.

“Training guides takes time and care, which is why we only run the course every few years,” she said.

“We hoped to re-commence it in 2021, but of course that was not to be [due to lockdowns].”

Longtime museum guide Louise Glaser (pictured with students) said, “The museum is my second family, and it’s something I feel really privileged to be able to do.”

The course will be run in two streams to ensure a small-group learning environment, and costs $250 for SJM members, or $300 for non-members, including one year’s membership.

For more information or to apply, go to sydneyjewishmuseum.com.au/g2g-guide-course