Hiwan Homestead Museum in Evergreen is seeking volunteer Tour Guides and Receptionists to help meet, greet, and inform visitors. As a Hiwan Homestead Museum volunteer, you can be a part of the Jefferson County Open Space “family of volunteers who help to preserve, protect and educate visitors about the natural and cultural treasures of Jefferson County!

Museum Tour Guides receive personalized training to give guided tours through the Museum for visitors from across the United States and around the world. Guides contribute at least two afternoons a month to help the Museum keep up its year-round schedule of serving the public. Museum Tour Guide training includes several training sessions and training will begin in March, 2010. Please contact the Museum to sign up as a Tour Guide and to begin your training sessions.

Museum Receptionists greet visitors and help coordinate the timing of tours, as well as facilitating book and postcard sales. Receptionist training is presented on a flexible, as-needed basis.

Among the many benefits of volunteering with Jefferson County Open Space are supplemental accident insurance, the opportunity to participate in educational sessions and events for volunteers only, meeting other volunteers with similar interests and the great feeling of being a part of the behind-the-scenes activities of an important cultural resource that is Hiwan Homestead Museum.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the Museum Administrator, John Steinle, at 720-497-7650 or jsteinle@jeffco.us.

Hiwan Homestead Museum is a 17-room log mansion constructed in the Rustic style of architecture. It is located in Evergreen at 4208 S. Timbervale Drive and is a Jefferson County Open Space facility operated through a partnership with the Jefferson County Historical Society. The Museum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
For more information call the Museum at 303-674-6262.