Workshop: Great Tours! Creating Thematic Tours and Training Guides for Historic Sites Can your museum's tour be improved? Do your guides need better training? Could your visitation be higher? Would you like a copy of one of the best books ever been written on giving tours? Help is on the way!!!! At the annual conference hosted by the Mountain-Plains Museums Association in Golden, Colorado, this October will be the very popular workshop: Great Tours! Creating Thematic Tours and Training Guides for Historic Sites. This is perhaps THE most comprehensive workshop presently available on the subject. Who should attend? Anyone who gives tours or trains the guides that gives them. Or anyone who is interested in learning how to develop tours. This workshop's advice can be applied to ANY kind of tour-giving organization. The workshop will cover the basics on how to create tours. It will also include how to train the people that give tours. Participants will receive the book, Great Tours, easily one of the best books out there on the subject of giving tours and one that can be used for any type of museum that gives tours. One of the book's authors will lead the workshop. This workshop will be held Tuesday, October 7, 2003. There is space for a limited number, so be sure to register soon. Questions? Respond to this email and we will get back to you ASAP. Details about the workshop provided here: WORKSHOP: Great Tours! Creating Thematic Tours and Training Guides for Historic Sites Tuesday, October 7, 2003, 8:00 am - 4 pm Full Day Workshop Presenters: Sandra Mackenzie Lloyd, Pennsylvania (Great Tours! author); Max A. van Balgooy, Washington, DC (Director of Interpretation and Education at the National Trust for Historic Preservation) Chair: Trey Corkern, Educator, Clear Creek History Park, Golden, Colorado Pre-registration required. $45. Ticket price includes Great Tours! book, handouts and lunch. The National Trust for Historic Preservation will present a one-day workshop on developing thematic tours and training guides at historic sites to museum associations, heritage areas, and history organizations. This workshop is based on best-selling book, Great Tours!: Thematic Tours and Guide Training for Historic Sites (AltaMira Press, 2002) and is traveling around the country to reach as many historic sites as possible. The workshop includes: o creating thematic tours that integrate historic sites, artifacts, and people; o selecting, training, and evaluating guides; o Identifying the needs and interests of various audiences. Upon Completion of this workshop, participants will be able to: o create a thematic tour for an historic site; o integrate material culture and historic biography into theme-based interpretation; o develop and maintain outstanding guides; o adapt and respond to various audience types. The target audiences for this workshop are educators, interpreters, curators, and other staff and volunteers responsible for the content and management of tours at historic sites. National Trust believes this workshop is an important contribution to the improvement of the interpretation of historic sites across the country. The workshop is co-sponsored by the American Association of State and Local History, AltaMira Press, and by a challenge grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Look in your conference program for the registration page. Or ask that one be sent to you - just respond to this email with your request. MPMA's 2003 Conference will be held in Golden, October 7-11, 2003. Why come to Golden? Coors, mountains AND it will have awesome sessions. Plus, it will be peak foliage time in the Rockies. MPMA's 2004 conference = Casper, Wyoming: September 7-10 (plan your Labor Day family vacation around the conference with tours to Yellowstone, etc.). (Ms.) Monta Lee Dakin, Executive Director Mountain-Plains Museums Association 7110 West David Drive, Littleton, CO 80128-5404 303-979-9358 / 303-979-3553 (fax) web site: www.mountplainsmuseums.org email: [log in to unmask] ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).