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Interpreting Heritage contains more than 200 examples from the author’s extensive experience in the field to illustrate in-practice positives and negatives, easy wins, and the pitfalls of the potentially endless ways in which information on history, art, science, landscape, culture and the environment can be successfully communicated to audiences. Liaise with the project manager to review interpretation tools during production and installation to identify potential snags. A range of methods can be used to build up a clear picture of visitors and some links are included in the information section below. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as "interpretation.
From these experiences Muir lays down some recommendation to the aspiring guide – to engage visitors’ brains as well as their hearts; to use questions as part of their trail; to make use of specimens as visual aids and to use physicality and humour as part of storytelling. I won’t quote them at you here – instead, I highly recommend you get a copy of his succinct and profound text. In a time of change, the possibilities of what interpretation can offer us as a sector are growing all the time. He began his professional career at the Imperial War Museum and the British Museum and has been an independent interpreter and consultant since 2009, working with museums, galleries, libraries, archives and other heritage sites.Heritage Interpretation will be hosted on GEM’s new Online Learning Platform, creating a secure space for students to access course resources forever. Touch tours allow visually impaired visitors to feel exhibits which might normally be protected behind barriers or glass. Interpretation refers to the full range of potential activities intended to heighten public awareness and enhance understanding of [a] cultural heritage site [ sic].
We want to understand, share and enhance that heritage and knowledge in an inclusive way to understand garden heritage and to engage with audiences.The National Maritime Museum in London devised structured involvement for a range of community partners to develop co-curated stories for the Endeavour Galleries. According to Moscardo [12] interpretation can produce 'Mindful Visitors' who are carefully processing information and negotiating the meanings of the observed object or intangible element. This course is aimed at professionals with responsibility for planning, delivering or managing learning programmes or interpretation across the heritage sector. It reminds us also of the importance of audiences – the visitors who come to experience our interpretive offerings, millions of them globally every year. Accessibility' can be a vexed word in heritage interpretation, but this engaging and eminently useful book manifests accessibility at every turn.
Exploring some of the ethical questions that arise when presenting information to the public and offering a grounding in some of the theory that underpins interpretive work, the book will be suitable for those who are completely new to interpretation. Norfolk Archives in partnership with Together involved people with lived experience of mental health conditions.
That said, if we are going to work with colleagues across the heritage sector on interpretive projects, it would make sense to find at least some common ground – some language, terminology and frameworks that we share. They may be used as a very rough estimate for ballpark figures before specific briefs are developed and costed. Participants are highly encouraged to take part in the live lectures, but there will also be a possibility to engage with the recorded sessions afterwards.
The majority of interpretation theories acknowledge that while the goal of interpretive work is often an endpoint – say, something that we show or give to a visitor in a heritage site – the actual act of creating interpretation is a process. She is also a founding member of the Global Association for Heritage Interpretation, an executive committee member of Australia ICOMOS, and NSW Chapter Councillor for the Australian Institute of Project Management. They start with the most important messages conveyed in headlines and opening paragraphs, followed by more in-depth information below.I applaud Steve Slack who says in his introduction "if you do find any rules in the pages of this book, you have my permission to break them". While the book is aimed at heritage interpreters it would be handy if colleagues, funders – nay even visitors – would read this book too. Perhaps these are only small changes, perhaps only a little at a time, but somehow people who have engaged with the interpretation we offer up to them may have had some change take place inside them. Appoint a consultant to undertake an access audit of your scheme design and make revisions where necessary.
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