Thank you for your interest in joining the Battleship Cove Volunteer Corps. The museum offers volunteer positions for qualified individuals on both long-term and short-term projects, matching your skills and interests to our needs.

Please contact the curator for a telephone or e-mail consultation on the volunteer projects that best match your skills to the museum's needs.

A FINE PROBLEM: We never expected to have this problem: Many of our new exhibit cases are so handsome, they draw attention from the artifacts they contain! It's a fine "problem" to have, and we owe it all to Tom Froio, one of Battleship Cove's "carpenter's mates.

Born in Brockton, MA, on Armistice Day in 1935, Froio is a former Marine who served on several attack transports in the Sixth Fleet. Following his enlistment, this talented leatherneck took advantage of the GI Bill and enrolled in the Franklin Trade School to study furniture-making, a skill he puts to great use while fashioning exhibit cabinets for Battleship Cove. Now, Froio's craftmanship is on display in such popular exhibits as the D-Day Invasion Room, the Pearl Harbor Room, and the Medal of Honor exhibit.

Do you like wood-working? Click here to learn about Battleship Cove's youth boat-carpentry class at the Henry Lord Middle School.