Museum Interpreters

Museum Interpreters at Connecticut Landmarks lead interactive visitor tours, programs, events, and hands-on activities at the various historic sites owned and operated by Connecticut Landmarks. Activities may include school field trips, adult and senior tours, scout programs, and virtual tours. Museum interpreters are advocates for the sites and the organization. As such, Museum Interpreters are expected to foster an open, welcoming, and enthusiastic environment for all visitors while always maintaining a high level of professionalism. Museum interpreters also promote and sell CTL admission tickets, memberships, and merchandise using Altru, CTL’s ticketing and membership POS software. They assist with program set-up, clean-up, and preparing education materials. This part-time position is seasonal and runs mainly between May through October. The number of hours varies depending upon each site’s scheduling needs but will be approximately 10-12 hours per week. Weekend availability is required.

The historic house museums seeking Museum Interpreters for the 2025 operating season include:

• The Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden, Bethlehem, was the summer home of Caroline Ferriday, a philanthropist whose work took her around the globe to aid victims of Ravensbrück concentration camp and support the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
• The Nathan Hale Homestead explores the way the Hale family supported the American Revolutionary War, from Nathan Hale’s service as America’s first spy, to other family members’ military service, to their provisioning, homesteading, and community-building at home.
• North Central Region:
  
  • From the Butler-McCook House & Garden—Hartford’s oldest remaining house—four generations of the McCook family shepherded local congregations, conducted social research, served in the military, traveled for missionary work, and expanded Trinity College.
  • The Isham-Terry House, Hartford, was a family residence and medical office in a city being rapidly reshaped by expanding industries, shifting gender roles, newly arriving immigrant groups and Urban Renewal in the 20th century.
  • The Phelps-Hatheway House & Garden explores the ways that the upheaval of wartime can change fortunes, examines how architecture reflects and shapes culture, considers Indigenous land rights, and interrogates decision-making in historic preservation.
• Southeast Region:
  
  • The Hempsted Houses provides a window into urban life in Colonial New London. In his 18th-century diary, Joshua Hempsted recorded family and civic life and documented the life and labor of Adam Jackson, a man of African descent who Hempsted enslaved for decades.
  • Through East Haddam’s Palmer-Warner House’s collections of letters and diaries, photographs, historic furnishings, and decorative arts that Frederic Palmer and Howard Metzger assembled together, visitors can understand the wider arc of 20th-century LGBTQ+ history.

Museum Interpreters are assigned to one property or region, though they may be able to cross-train at other sites or be asked to support special event programming throughout the state.

To Apply:
Please see full job posting PDF.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. For fastest review, please send a resume detailing your education and experience and a cover letter explaining your interest to Shaelyn Amaio at [email protected]. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until positions are filled. No phone calls, please.