Want to make your gallery tours come to life and better engage

your visitors? This is the course for you!

 

MS 268: Creating Interpretive Gallery Tours

September 4 to 29, 2023  

Instructor: Prof. John Veverka

Location: https://museumclasses.org/

 

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?).

 

For more information:  https://www.collectioncare.org/creating-interpretive-gallery-tours