MS 268: Creating Interpretive Gallery Tours NEW COURSE
August 5 to 30, 2019
Instructor: John Veverka
Description:
There is more to a guided tour than
information – you also need inspiration. This course will help curators
teach and coach their docents and volunteers to create interpretive stories and
experiences that will help make their presentations “come to life” for their
visitors.
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?).
Feel free to contact me with
questions