The San Joaquin County Historical Museum is looking for docents to share the stories of the county with visitors. Applications are now being accepted for the 2024-2025 docent class at the museum ...

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 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 ...

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 docents at institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston are all volunteers.

“Docents are a very visible symptom of the larger changes already happening at museums,” said Ryan Hill, who has managed docent programs at several institutions, including the Smithsonian’s ...

Docents Gone Wild Arts-loving retired baby boomers are hustling to volunteer as museum tour guides—but they sometimes go rogue, touching the art, misstating facts and committing other infractions By ...

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.

New docents must be 18 or older and complete a seven-day instructional course. Applications are due by Jan. 12 and applicants will be interviewed on Jan. 21.

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 ...

The Sherman Library and Gardens in Corona del Mar is looking for docents who will provide tours. An orientation class begins at 9 a.m. Jan. 28., with six training classes to follow on Monday ...