The
Heritage Interpretation Training Center
Interpretive
Exhibit Planning/Evaluation and Text Development Courses
The Heritage Interpretation Training
Center offers several college level courses on interpretive exhibit planning
and design. You can start the
course at any time and complete the course at your own pace. You can also use the courses to work on
actual exhibit courses you might be (or soon to be) working on. Our courses
also award CEU units, and offer a “live” course instructor you can chat with or
SKYPE with when you need to. Just click on the link to each course to
visit that courses web site page for detailed course content registration
details.
Our basic course to help walk you
through a new or existing exhibit project – from themes and objectives, to
visitor considerations, individual exhibit planning, using Interpretive
Principles (Provoke, Relate and Reveal) to interpretive text writing to
pre-post test evaluation.
Most organizations simply can’t afford
to build new exhibits, and many time existing exhibits just need a “face lift”
to be more effective in interpreting the gallery theme and objectives and
creating better label copy. We’ll help
you evaluate your current exhibits and help you update them and make them more
visitor friendly.
Do
your exhibits actually accomplish their interpretive objectives and illustrate
your main theme? Do your exhibits not
only accomplish nothing but can create “negative learning”. Measure twice and cut once. This course will help you produce or rehab
exhibits that are more effective in accomplishing your objectives and eliminate
neutral or negative learning exhibit outcomes.
Does
your interpretive exhibit labels (text) talk “at your visitors” or “to your
visitors”? Does your text focus on using
interpretive principles and use “intangibles” as a way to relate your story or
artifact stories to your visitors? This
course help you write “inspirational” text with a goal that visitors will “remember”
your theme, mission and stories. A copy
of our new text book “The Interpretive Writers Handbook” will be given as the
main textbook for the course.
The
HITC offers 44 introductory and advanced courses in heritage interpretation,
from Interpretive Master Planning, to Training for Interpretive trainers. Check out our course catalog:
We also offer live course training at your site for
your total staff. Ask for details.
John
Veverka
HITC
Director