STEP BACK INTO THE 1950s WITH US
The 1950s Park Forest House Museum Needs Volunteers!! 

We must have more volunteers to advertise regular hours and for tours.

Come exchange stories about your youth.  Spend time surrounded by familiar toys, dolls, and household furnishings.

It's really fun to show the museum!

Lots of great publicity from the Chicago Tribune article, February 3, 2008,

& from the AARP Bulletin in March 2008 have brought people from all over!  We expect more coverage, soon. People from all over the country have contacted us about visiting.  We need volunteers there when they come!

The Museum is not just about Park Forest History!

It interprets an original home furnished as it might have been from 1948-1953. We have dolls, toys, books, clothing, galoshes, holiday decorations, a classroom from Forest Boulevard School, artwork from Park Forest artists, cloth diapers, a wringer washer, a bathinette and more!

When is the last time you said, "Hi" to Howdy Doody?

Volunteering means taking a turn every once in a while, giving tours to folks who come by during our open hours, Wednesday and Saturday 1:00-3:30. We are booking group tours during the week. We need some who can be "on call" for visitors who can't come at regular open times, or for large reunion groups on Saturdays, sometimes during extended hours.

Volunteer with you neighbor, best friend, sibling, child, grandchild, or spouse. If there are no visitors, you get a chance to visit. If there are lots, you have a great time sharing!

Please come give this a try! We will train you.

We accept students who need community service hours.

Contact Jane Nicoll, Director

Other Volunteers We Need at the Museum

We need people to help clean light dusting of furniture and vaccuuming carpeting, shaking out of rugs, dusting blinds.

People are needed to help decorate for the seasons or for the holidays, and to help pack the decorations away.

When the IMLS grant ends, September 2015, we will still be labeling items and entering the collection into a PastPerfect database.