Are you looking for a FUN part-time, weekend job and have an interest in the history of the Silver Valley? The Shoshone County Mining and Smelting Museum is looking for a Museum Tour Guide and Gift Shop Cashier for the summer, between the hours of 11:00am and 4:00pm.
You would provide a welcoming, hospitable environment and rewarding learning experience to museum visitors.
DUTIES MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
1. Welcoming visitors to the museum and provide visitors with a short history of the Staff House Museum. Be comfortable speaking to small and large groups of people of all ages.
2. Conducting occasional tours, if necessary, of museum and facilities for VIPs, special visiting groups, school groups, etc.
3. Deal skillfully with a variety of visitors under a variety of circumstances.
4. Keep informed about changes in museum exhibits and the mining history of the Silver Valley.
5. Provide information to museum visitors and answer questions about the museum.
6. Assist, on occasion, with special event programs and be able to fill in on weekdays if necessary.
7. Host the gift shop, handle cash and credit transactions, be willing to learn the Square Reader program and provide daily reporting, assist as needed in maintaining inventory, light cleaning, and other administrative duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED:
1. Must be age 18 or older
2. Enjoy meeting and interacting with other people, is flexible and enthusiastic
3. Personable, outgoing, reliable, responsible
4. Capable of learning new material and willing to invest time and expend the effort necessary to learn about the museum exhibits and the mining history of the Silver Valley
5. Able to work independently and be responsible for opening and closing museum
6. Able to speak comfortably before groups of people
7. Physically able to lead tours and offer guidance around the museum using stairs
TRAINING/ORIENTATION PROVIDED:
1. A full day of onsite training for opening, closing, using the Square Reader, and orientation of each exhibit.
2. Reading materials about the museum and instruction binder for daily operations.
3. Tour Guide Training by one of our expert volunteers.
4. Give a sample tour to 4-6 museum visitors accompanied by staff
LOCATION OF JOB:
Shoshone County Mining and Smelting Museum, 820 McKinley Ave., Kellogg, ID 83837
SUBMIT RESUME OR APPLICATION TO:
Email: bhstaffhouse@gmail.com
Mail: Staff House Museum
P.O. Box 783
Kellogg, ID 83837
In person: Shoshone County Mining and Smelting Museum, 820 McKinley Ave. Kellogg, ID Wednesday, June 19th or June 26th, between 11:00am and 4:00pm.
(Resume or Application must be received by Wednesday, June 26th)
We are deeply saddened by the loss of a long-time board member and pillar of our community.
Jackie has been active in the Museum for many years. Some of her more recent contributions included organizing the Joe Breckenridge art exhibition, arranging music for the Christmas Parties, baking for the Pie Socials together with creating several exhibits. Some of the exhibits she put together included the Elementary School exhibit, the Pine Creek mines exhibit and most recently the tribute to Ed Pommereing’s leadership in the reforestation of the Kellogg area. She was also the author of “Jessie Colby and the Great Pine Creek Fire of 1910” which she published and donated the proceeds to the Museum.
She was always a lively, fun and hard-working member of our board and will be sorely missed.
Rick Dickinson puts final nails in trim around newly installed windows.
In mid-October we finally got the windows purchased from Shoshone Glass with money from a 2022 grant from INNOVIA.
The windows were ordered right after receiving the $7,200 grant but since they were a custom size and with manufacturing delays due to COVID it took nearly a year to get them.
We were able to purchase three custom Pella windows that were installed in the School and Fraternal display room on the second floor.
Thanks to Rick Dickinson who gave us very favorable pricing for his highly skilled work installing the windows.
We also thank Dante Bisaro owner of The Rental Store for giving us a free day's rent and waving delivery charges on the manlift.
A fresh coat of paint graces the south elevation of the Staff House.
(The chimney will be stripped back to original red brick and sealed in near future)
In the closing days of 2022 the Shoshone County Board of County Commissioners allocated $22,500 of Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLRF) to the Mining Museum to partially fund a $35,000 request for repainting the exterior of the Staff House building.
Silver Valley Painting was awarded the contract to paint the West and South elevations. The work was nearly completed in late November before weather prevented final detail work. Our deepest gratitude to Philip Howard and his crew for squeezing us into their busy schedule this year. Their work has been first rate and the crew was a pleasure to work with.
Idaho Heritage Trust has approved grant money that will help will help us to continue the painting at the North elevation which we hope to have done in the Spring.
Shannon Sardell the Historical Architect for the Idaho Heritage Trust (IHT) visited our museum in early September. Much useful information was provided about past work on the building and recommendations for future projects was obtained. It was recommended that the paint be removed from the brick chimney exposing its original appearance. We were pleased to learn that due to their good condition and insulation value of storm windows on the windows opening onto the veranda, that such will not need to be replaced in the near future.
Our many thanks to Shannon for the useful input and to the Idaho Historical Trust for providing her services.
Nearly fifty members of the National State Boards of Geology Managers visited our museum in late October. The group of managers for state geology boards from across the country especially enjoyed our various mineral collections, the Bunker Hill exhibit and the mine models. Their tour director arranged for Radio Brew Pub to cater their lunch which they were served at tables we provided in the basement. Earlier they had visited Kaiser Aluminum in the Spokane Valley and were headed to the Sunshine Mine after leaving us. We greatly enjoyed hosting this very interesting group.
An overview of how Ed Pommerening lead the transformation of the once brown bare hillsides of Kellogg into the lush green hills we see today.
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