From greeting guests to leading tours, museum volunteers provide essential support across departments, both in public and ...

The Art Institute used to have more than 100 docents, 82 of them active, until Veronica Stein, an executive director of learning and engagement, sent a Sept. 3 email canning all of them.

People become docents for personal and professional reasons. Many, like James Stein, a Washington, D.C., attorney and docent at the National Gallery of Art, want to make use of a background in art ...

36 sheets in 18 plastic sleeves bound in a plastic folder. Summary Each sheet contains the name of one docent, with portrait (if available), year the docent started with the museum, and a short ...

Experienced docents oversee the training program and are assisted by the museum’s curators and professors of art. We also have weekly continuing-education lectures from September to May.

The controversy around the art institute's decision has reignited debate about docent programs and equity as consultants, museum staff, docents and Chicago residents clash over the way forward ...

On Discovery Day Thursday, the last before the July 14 start of the O.C. Fair, volunteers shared their love of nature with children and their parents.

Attendance at Philadelphia's Penn Museum has shot up since the Global Guides first tours in 2018. The refugee and immigrant docents receive training in archaeology, ancient history and story-telling.

The docents in their safari shirts, many of them elderly, are as much a part of the landscape as the zebras. Gelfond is far from the only one who is stunned and distressed.

I am distressed to hear that the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden eliminated its docent program [" Hirshhorn dismisses its longtime docents," Style, Nov. 1] and replaced the docents with interns.

Meet the Docents XiHu Arfa (she/her) is a senior at Brandeis University pursuing a double major in Studio Art and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a minor in Asian American Pacific Islander ...