Volunteer work @ the Mucem

 A summer at the Mucem

Hi Charlie, 

So I wanted to tell you about some of my summer (we're almost in summer again so you could say that I am a bit late...)

Last summer (This was a first in Marseille), we (about eight girls from our class) got involved with the International Circle od the Friends Of The Mucem for volunteer work in English.  I should probably start by explaining who  the Friends are. It's a society supporting the museum by carrying its missions mainly to boost the museum's profile  on various scales.  

The internship consisted in helping at the Friends' counter in the reception  area of the Mucem. The goal was to get tourist or locals to get a membership to enjoy preferential rates and exclusive events. But the role of the hostess is also to welcome anyone coming to us and answer his\her questions in the best way possible. 

So that was in theory what we had to do. Here's what my personal experience was like:

I went about 4 or 5 times with Mathilde or Yasmine, each time we stayed for 2 hours. We had a supervisor if we may call her that. Her name was Roseline, she was extremely kind and receptive to us. The thing is, we weren't very busy as we had a very restricted number of visitors. 

Overall, we did get to chat in English even if we weren'talways feeling extremely useful at the moment. We did get to keep company to our nice supervisor who was kind enough to let us visit some of the exhibits we hadn't seen. Mrs. C said that this volunteering in Englsih experience is available again  with extra missions for this summer 
 I would recommend you doing it because you get to decide how much time you want to invest in this and I personally think that you will be left with a good first (or not) experience. 

Inès