What are the responsibilities and job description for the Volunteer: Lichterman Nature Center Plant Sale/ April 12, 2025 position at Memphis Museums of Science & History - MoSH?
The Pink Palace Family of Museums is the most visited of Tennessee’s museums and one of the largest facilities of its kind in the Southeast. You can explore the cultural and natural history of the Mid-South through exciting exhibits, dioramas, and audio-visuals. Trace Memphis' development from the time of Spanish explorers through the Civil War and the yellow fever epidemics. You will also see how dinosaurs and fossils dramatically chronicle our ever-changing planet. The Museum also hosts a number of touring exhibits for visitors to see and experience throughout the year. The Museum offers
If you are an outdoor person, a people person, or if you love plants this is the volunteer opportunity for you. Volunteers are needed Friday and Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 8 30-am-1 00pm and/ or 12 30pm-5 00pm each day. Volunteers will assist with moving plants to the sale areas, helping load plants in car (small plants mostly), assist with purchase tickets, act as greeters, and help rehouse plants at the end of the day. So come out and help others beautify their yards, go green with native plants, maybe learn something new about plants, and have a great day outdoors at Lichterman Nature Center. If you need more information about volunteering contact Janie Best Paraham at the email address below. Hope to see you there.
Thank you!!!
Janie Best Paraham
MoSH/ Pink Palace Museum
janie.paraham@memphistn.gov
901.636.2438
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.
- The Crew Training International 3D Giant Theater, with a screen four (4) stories high, offers educational films that takes you to exotic places or engages you with stories of world exploration from the deep sea to outer space.
- The Lida Gammill Sharpe Planetarium, a 130-seat theater-in-the-round, using planetarium technology to project star fields, visual images and patterns on a domed ceiling.
- Lichterman Nature Center, located in the heart of metropolitan Memphis, offers exciting nature exhibits and spans 65 acres of lake, meadow, and forest habitats. A certified arboretum, Lichterman has the convenience of extensive handicap accessible indoor and outdoor facilities for use during all types of weather. Three miles of accessible trails wind and loop through representative mid-south habitats punctuated by conveniently located rest stops.
- Coon Creek Science Center, located in rural McNairy County, Tennessee, is one of the most important fossil sites in North America. This property contains a treasure lode of superbly preserved Upper Cretaceous marine shells and vertebrate remains left there 70 million years ago when the water of the Gulf of Mexico receded.
If you are an outdoor person, a people person, or if you love plants this is the volunteer opportunity for you. Volunteers are needed Friday and Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 8 30-am-1 00pm and/ or 12 30pm-5 00pm each day. Volunteers will assist with moving plants to the sale areas, helping load plants in car (small plants mostly), assist with purchase tickets, act as greeters, and help rehouse plants at the end of the day. So come out and help others beautify their yards, go green with native plants, maybe learn something new about plants, and have a great day outdoors at Lichterman Nature Center. If you need more information about volunteering contact Janie Best Paraham at the email address below. Hope to see you there.
Thank you!!!
Janie Best Paraham
MoSH/ Pink Palace Museum
janie.paraham@memphistn.gov
901.636.2438
This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.