Heritage
Interpretation Training Center
A
Curators guide for helping their docents/volunteers create truly interpretive
gallery tours for Art and Traditional Museums.
Techniques for revealing the hidden stories and meanings in art and artifacts for presenting dynamic and inspirational interpretive tour experiences for your visitors.
12 Units, 2 CEU
Credits
Course Tuition:
$200.00
www.heritageinterp.com/a_curators_guide_for_developing_gallery_tours.html
While
gallery tours by docents/volunteers are a staple at art museums and traditional
museums as well, most education curators would like the tour to be more than a
"Wikipedia" tour of "just the facts".
Interpretive tours are focused on a theme and revealing a story to the
visitors - with objectives (outcomes) they want the tour to actually
accomplish. This training course
will help curators help prepare their docents for tours
that:
1. Have an
interpretive theme.
2. Have
accomplishable objectives.
3. Has about 7
tour stops, each of which illustrate the main interpretive
theme.
4. Use
interpretive communications structure for each stop (provoke, relate and
reveal).
5. Use the
techniques of tangibles and intangibles in their
presentation.
6. Encourage the
use of multiple senses to relate to visitors.
7. Have a
provocative introduction and then ending conclusion summary for the
tour.
8. Have as much
"inspiration" as "information".
9. Leave the visitors asking for more (when's your next tour?).
Learn more about the course here on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f38Y7mqILYw
Start the course at any time, complete the course at your own pace.
If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch.
John Veverka
Director, HITC
http://www.heritageinterp.com/interpretive_training_center_course_catalogue_.html