Historic Museum
Museo Histórico de Placilla
- Community museum
- Learn about local history
- Help making dreams come true
- Support any way you can
This is the local historical museum of Placilla, located in the cultural centrum of the small city. Here they do not only tell the (his)story of the region, but also about nature and the area. As a volunteer you can contribute in many areas, depending on your knowledge and background. Students, professionals but also people with interest in culture and history are more than welcome to support. Come to Placilla and make the ambitions of this small museum grow.
In a nutshell:
- Location: Placilla, next to Valparaíso
- Activities: Depending on your background and interests; helping afhankelijk van je achtergrond en interesses; support in public area with guiding and front desk, create and give workshops, fundraising, support with social media and much more
- Working hours: From 9.30am until 2.00pm or 6.30pm
- Availability: All year round. Closed in the weekend and on National holidays
- Language: Basic level Spanish
- Accommodation: Host family or room in a shared house
- You: are 18+ and you are interested in history, nature and culture
- Durarion of stay: You need to work a minimum of 4 weeks on this project
- Costs: €220 for the first week. €90 for every extra week
About el Museo Histórico de Placilla
Museo Histórico is a community museum that is located just outside Valparaíso, the capital of the Region. It was founded in 2009 under the wing of a Cultural Centre, an organization that promotes the culture and history of the area and the country. It was born due the need of the locals to have a place to store different objects they found as children, such as prehistoric objects and gun shelves. One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War in Chile was fought near Placilla and this became a fundamental part of the identity of this area. The treasures the children found belonged to other times, long ago, but they became part of their daily childhood and were later the inspiration for long conversations and speculations about where these objects came from and what stories they tell.
Muséo Histórico is the first community museum in Valparaíso with wide ambitions to grow and tell the story of the area. They are dedicated to preserving, researching, promoting, valuing, sensitizing and spread the heritage of this area of Valparaíso and its relationship with the Region and the country.
Colleagues
At the moment only the director is working fulltime in the museum. She is an anthropologist and a sociologist with various postgraduate degrees in the area of history and cultural management. She is receiving support by interns from local universities and several volunteers from the Cultural Centre. Your colleagues will be a divers group of local people with different backgrounds: musicians, artists, teachers, engineers, actors etc.
Activities
When you volunteer in the museum you are part of the team that is responsible for all the tasks in the museum. To give some examples:
– Supporting the public area with receiving guests and guide them around
– Various administrative tasks
– Create and give informative workshops for children and adults
– Help to clean and maintain the museum and the museumgarden
– Support in designing projects and exhibitions
– Support in fundraising and donations
Working hours
The opening hours of the museum are:
From Monday until Thursday: from 9.30am – 2.00pm and 3.30pm – 5.30pm.
On Friday: from 9.30am – 1.30pm and 3.00pm – 4.30pm
You can work all day but also only in the morning until 2.00pm. Regurlarly the museum needs help on special occasions like Midnight museums, Museum night, National Cultural Heritage Day, Regional museum meetings, walks to sites of historical and natural interest as well as visits to schools and other institutions.
At this moment the museum is not opened in the weekend but they would like to open in those days as well. Opening in the weekend allowes the museum to receive more visitors. It might be that you change a weekday of work for a day of work in the weekend.
How to get to the project
The museum is located in Placilla, a town just behind Valparaíso. With public transport from Valparaíso you will be there in around 30 minutes.
Who are you?
The museum is looking for people (18+) who have affinity with history and culture and would like to support this project with their expertise. You don’t have to be a professional or student; enthusiasm and an open mind are enough! If you are a professional or student: on this project there are many options to apply your knowledge and there is all the space for you to learn. Contact us if you have any questions about the program. You are more than welcome if you share interest in the following areas:
– History
– Nature, recycling and urban gardens
– Conservation and restoration
– Visual arts
– Graphic design
– Photography
– Audiovisual
– Social media and online content management
– Theater and performing arts
– English language (for workshops)
– Robotics (for entertaining workshops for children and young people)
The museum is open to receive volunteers with all kinds of backgrounds. Are you in doubt? Ask us for advice!
It is possible to do an internship in the museum. We will guide and support you with your assignments and create an environment where you can grown and learn.
Language requirements
For this project you will need a basic level of Spanish to communicate well with your colleagues and visitors. The director is the only one who speaks English and she will be your contact on the project. We will always advice you to improve your Spanish before you come to Chile since it will make your stay and work on the project way more fun an interesting. Check out here how you can learn Spanish in Valparaíso.
In interview with Go Local Chile is part of the registration procedure.
A typical day at the museum
Your working day starts at 9.30 in the morning. Depending on your background and skills and specific knowledge you discuss with the director what your tasks are for the day. Next to your own tasks you will help receiving guests, recieve and guide schoolclasses, set up the museum for events, prepare workshops and diverse tasks depending on the activitycalender. You will also assist with cultural trips to historical locations, visits at schools or events related to the museum.
If you choose to work all day, your break for lunch will be at 2.00pm and you can enjoy this with your colleagues. At 3.30pm you get back to work until the end of the day. On Fridays your working hours are slightly different.
Program costs
-
€90,- for every extra week
Included
- Online meeting (mandatory)
- Organization of your stay and work in Chile
- Personal advice & support during your stay
- Project introduction
- Guide to survive Chile
- Local English speaking contact person
- 24/7 emergency number in Chile
- Accommodation
- Guide through the city/area
Not included
- Transportcosts to reach the project
- Airline ticket
- Travel insurance
- Travel vaccinations (if needed)
- Visa costs (if needed)
- Cost for Certificate of Good Conduct
- Airport pick-up
Contact us!
Your contact on the project
Pamela
Pamela is our and your local on the project. She is the director of the museum. In her own experience with traveling abroad she knows how it feels to be somewhere far and unknown. She will be there for you to support and guide you.
Share this project
What's next?
Are you enthusiastic about volunteering at el Museo Histórico de Placilla? Fantastic! It is going to be an unforgettable experience. Before you appy, please make sure you read all the information about costs and requirements. Do you want to know more? Click here.
Historic Museum
Museo Histórico de Placilla
- Community museum
- Learn about local history
- Help making dreams come true
- Support any way you can
This is the local historical museum of Placilla, located in the cultural centrum of the small city. Here they do not only tell the (his)story of the region, but also about nature and the area. As a volunteer you can contribute in many areas, depending on your knowledge and background. Students, professionals but also people with interest in culture and history are more than welcome to support. Come to Placilla and make the ambitions of this small museum grow.
In a nutshell:
- Location: Placilla, next to Valparaíso
- Activities: Depending on your background and interests; helping afhankelijk van je achtergrond en interesses; support in public area with guiding and front desk, create and give workshops, fundraising, support with social media and much more
- Working hours: From 9.30am until 2.00pm or 6.30pm
- Availability: All year round. Closed in the weekend and on National holidays
- Language: Basic level Spanish
- Accommodation: Host family or room in a shared house
- You: are 18+ and you are interested in history, nature and culture
- Durarion of stay: You need to work a minimum of 4 weeks on this project
- Costs: From €421 to €681 for 4 weeks( depends if you pick Basic or Full)
About el Museo Histórico de Placilla
Museo Histórico is a community museum that is located just outside Valparaíso, the capital of the Region. It was founded in 2009 under the wing of a Cultural Centre, an organization that promotes the culture and history of the area and the country. It was born due the need of the locals to have a place to store different objects they found as children, such as prehistoric objects and gun shelves. One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War in Chile was fought near Placilla and this became a fundamental part of the identity of this area. The treasures the children found belonged to other times, long ago, but they became part of their daily childhood and were later the inspiration for long conversations and speculations about where these objects came from and what stories they tell.
Muséo Histórico is the first community museum in Valparaíso with wide ambitions to grow and tell the story of the area. They are dedicated to preserving, researching, promoting, valuing, sensitizing and spread the heritage of this area of Valparaíso and its relationship with the Region and the country.
Colleagues
At the moment only the director is working fulltime in the museum. She is an anthropologist and a sociologist with various postgraduate degrees in the area of history and cultural management. She is receiving support by interns from local universities and several volunteers from the Cultural Centre. Your colleagues will be a divers group of local people with different backgrounds: musicians, artists, teachers, engineers, actors etc.
Activities
When you volunteer in the museum you are part of the team that is responsible for all the tasks in the museum. To give some examples:
– Supporting the public area with receiving guests and guide them around
– Various administrative tasks
– Create and give informative workshops for children and adults
– Help to clean and maintain the museum and the museumgarden
– Support in designing projects and exhibitions
– Support in fundraising and donations
Working hours
The opening hours of the museum are:
From Monday until Thursday: from 9.30am – 2.00pm and 3.30pm – 5.30pm.
On Friday: from 9.30am – 1.30pm and 3.00pm – 4.30pm
You can work all day but also only in the morning until 2.00pm. Regurlarly the museum needs help on special occasions like Midnight museums, Museum night, National Cultural Heritage Day, Regional museum meetings, walks to sites of historical and natural interest as well as visits to schools and other institutions.
At this moment the museum is not opened in the weekend but they would like to open in those days as well. Opening in the weekend allowes the museum to receive more visitors. It might be that you change a weekday of work for a day of work in the weekend.
How to get to the project
The museum is located in Placilla, a town just behind Valparaíso. With public transport from Valparaíso you will be there in around 30 minutes.
Who are you?
The museum is looking for people (18+) who have affinity with history and culture and would like to support this project with their expertise. You don’t have to be a professional or student; enthusiasm and an open mind are enough! If you are a professional or student: on this project there are many options to apply your knowledge and there is all the space for you to learn. Contact us if you have any questions about the program. You are more than welcome if you share interest in the following areas:
– History
– Nature, recycling and urban gardens
– Conservation and restoration
– Visual arts
– Graphic design
– Photography
– Audiovisual
– Social media and online content management
– Theater and performing arts
– English language (for workshops)
– Robotics (for entertaining workshops for children and young people)
The museum is open to receive volunteers with all kinds of backgrounds. Are you in doubt? Ask us for advice!
It is possible to do an internship in the museum. We will guide and support you with your assignments and create an environment where you can grown and learn.
Language requirements
For this project you will need a basic level of Spanish to communicate well with your colleagues and visitors. The director is the only one who speaks English and she will be your contact on the project. We will always advice you to improve your Spanish before you come to Chile since it will make your stay and work on the project way more fun an interesting. Check out here how you can learn Spanish in Valparaíso.
In interview with Go Local Chile is part of the registration procedure.
A typical day at the museum
Your working day starts at 9.30 in the morning. Depending on your background and skills and specific knowledge you discuss with the director what your tasks are for the day. Next to your own tasks you will help receiving guests, recieve and guide schoolclasses, set up the museum for events, prepare workshops and diverse tasks depending on the activitycalender. You will also assist with cultural trips to historical locations, visits at schools or events related to the museum.
If you choose to work all day, your break for lunch will be at 2.00pm and you can enjoy this with your colleagues. At 3.30pm you get back to work until the end of the day. On Fridays your working hours are slightly different.
Included
- Online meeting (mandatory)
- Organization of your stay and work in Chile
- Personal advice & support during your stay
- Project introduction
- Guide to survive Chile
- Local English speaking contact person
- 24/7 emergency number in Chile
- Certificate of participation
- Airport pick-up
- Accommodation
- Guide through the city/area
- One meal a day (breakfast, lunch or dinner)
Not included
- Transportcosts to reach the project
- Airline ticket
- Travel insurance
- Travel vaccinations (if needed)
- Visa costs (if needed)
- Cost for Certificate of Good Conduct
Do you prefer to arrange your own accommodation? Or do you require less service? That is possible too. Click here for more information.
Contact us!
Your contact on the project
Pamela
Pamela is our and your local on the project. She is the director of the museum. In her own experience with traveling abroad she knows how it feels to be somewhere far and unknown. She will be there for you to support and guide you.
Share this project
What's next?
Are you enthusiastic about volunteering at el Museo Histórico de Placilla? Fantastic! It is going to be an unforgettable experience. Before you appy, please make sure you read all the information about costs and requirements. Do you want to know more? Click here.
Historic Museum
Museo Histórico de Placilla
- Community museum
- Learn about local history
- Help making dreams come true
- Support any way you can
This is the local historical museum of Placilla, located in the cultural centrum of the small city. Here they do not only tell the (his)story of the region, but also about nature and the area. As a volunteer you can contribute in many areas, depending on your knowledge and background. Students, professionals but also people with interest in culture and history are more than welcome to support. Come to Placilla and make the ambitions of this small museum grow.
In a nutshell:
- Location: Placilla, next to Valparaíso
- Activities: Depending on your background and interests; helping afhankelijk van je achtergrond en interesses; support in public area with guiding and front desk, create and give workshops, fundraising, support with social media and much more
- Working hours: From 9.30am until 2.00pm or 6.30pm
- Availability: All year round. Closed in the weekend and on National holidays
- Language: Basic level Spanish
- Accommodation: Host family or room in a shared house
- You: are 18+ and you are interested in history, nature and culture
- Durarion of stay: You need to work a minimum of 4 weeks on this project
- Costs: From €421 to €681 for 4 weeks( depends if you pick Basic or Full)
About el Museo Histórico de Placilla
Museo Histórico is a community museum that is located just outside Valparaíso, the capital of the Region. It was founded in 2009 under the wing of a Cultural Centre, an organization that promotes the culture and history of the area and the country. It was born due the need of the locals to have a place to store different objects they found as children, such as prehistoric objects and gun shelves. One of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War in Chile was fought near Placilla and this became a fundamental part of the identity of this area. The treasures the children found belonged to other times, long ago, but they became part of their daily childhood and were later the inspiration for long conversations and speculations about where these objects came from and what stories they tell.
Muséo Histórico is the first community museum in Valparaíso with wide ambitions to grow and tell the story of the area. They are dedicated to preserving, researching, promoting, valuing, sensitizing and spread the heritage of this area of Valparaíso and its relationship with the Region and the country.
Colleagues
At the moment only the director is working fulltime in the museum. She is an anthropologist and a sociologist with various postgraduate degrees in the area of history and cultural management. She is receiving support by interns from local universities and several volunteers from the Cultural Centre. Your colleagues will be a divers group of local people with different backgrounds: musicians, artists, teachers, engineers, actors etc.
Activities
When you volunteer in the museum you are part of the team that is responsible for all the tasks in the museum. To give some examples:
– Supporting the public area with receiving guests and guide them around
– Various administrative tasks
– Create and give informative workshops for children and adults
– Help to clean and maintain the museum and the museumgarden
– Support in designing projects and exhibitions
– Support in fundraising and donations
Working hours
The opening hours of the museum are:
From Monday until Thursday:
from 9.30am – 2.00pm and 3.30pm – 5.30pm.
On Friday: from 9.30am – 1.30pm and 3.00pm – 4.30pm
You can work all day but also only in the morning until 2.00pm. Regurlarly the museum needs help on special occasions like Midnight museums, Museum night, National Cultural Heritage Day, Regional museum meetings, walks to sites of historical and natural interest as well as visits to schools and other institutions.
At this moment the museum is not opened in the weekend but they would like to open in those days as well. Opening in the weekend allowes the museum to receive more visitors. It might be that you change a weekday of work for a day of work in the weekend.
How to get to the project
The museum is located in Placilla, a town just behind Valparaíso. With public transport from Valparaíso you will be there in around 30 minutes.
Who are you?
The museum is looking for people (18+) who have affinity with history and culture and would like to support this project with their expertise. You don’t have to be a professional or student; enthusiasm and an open mind are enough! If you are a professional or student: on this project there are many options to apply your knowledge and there is all the space for you to learn. Contact us if you have any questions about the program. You are more than welcome if you share interest in the following areas:
– History
– Nature, recycling and urban gardens
– Conservation and restoration
– Visual arts
– Graphic design
– Photography
– Audiovisual
– Social media and online content management
– Theater and performing arts
– English language (for workshops)
– Robotics (for entertaining workshops for children and young people)
The museum is open to receive volunteers with all kinds of backgrounds. Are you in doubt? Ask us for advice!
It is possible to do an internship in the museum. We will guide and support you with your assignments and create an environment where you can grown and learn.
Language requirements
For this project you will need a basic level of Spanish to communicate well with your colleagues and visitors. The director is the only one who speaks English and she will be your contact on the project. We will always advice you to improve your Spanish before you come to Chile since it will make your stay and work on the project way more fun an interesting. Check out here how you can learn Spanish in Valparaíso.
In interview with Go Local Chile is part of the registration procedure.
A typical day at the museum
Your working day starts at 9.30 in the morning. Depending on your background and skills and specific knowledge you discuss with the director what your tasks are for the day. Next to your own tasks you will help receiving guests, recieve and guide schoolclasses, set up the museum for events, prepare workshops and diverse tasks depending on the activitycalender. You will also assist with cultural trips to historical locations, visits at schools or events related to the museum.
If you choose to work all day, your break for lunch will be at 2.00pm and you can enjoy this with your colleagues. At 3.30pm you get back to work until the end of the day. On Fridays your working hours are slightly different.
Included
- Online meeting (mandatory)
- Organization of your stay and work in Chile
- Personal advice & support during your stay
- Project introduction
- Guide to survive Chile
- Local English speaking contact person
- 24/7 emergency number in Chile
- Certificate of participation
- Airport pick-up
- Accommodation
- Guide through the city/area
- One meal a day (breakfast, lunch or dinner)
Not included
- Transportcosts to reach the project
- Airline ticket
- Travel insurance
- Travel vaccinations (if needed)
- Visa costs (if needed)
- Cost for Certificate of Good Conduct
Do you prefer to arrange your own accommodation? Or do you require less service? That is possible too. Click here for more information.
Contact us!
Your contact on the project
Pamela
Pamela is our and your local on the project. She is the director of the museum. In her own experience with traveling abroad she knows how it feels to be somewhere far and unknown. She will be there for you to support and guide you.
Share this project
What's next?
Are you enthusiastic about volunteering at el Museo Histórico de Placilla? Fantastic! It is going to be an unforgettable experience. Before you appy, please make sure you read all the information about costs and requirements. Do you want to know more? Click here.
