Maintaining locomotives, giving guided tours, managing the archive: without volunteers, many transport museums would be nothing. Seven people report how they get involved – and what drives them.
At the DB Museum in Nuremberg alone and its branch offices in Koblenz and Halle an der Saale, several hundred volunteers are involved – be it as train drivers, as supervisors during opening hours, as contact persons for visitors at events or as cashiers. Many volunteers are also working behind the scenes of the transport museums in Germany. Without them, many houses would not be able to maintain their offers. Seven people report what they have to do in their respective houses: