Back in my days interpreting exhibitions about non-Western cultures to school groups (at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History) I found high school groups at least as interesting and fun (the key here is fun) as younger and older aged groups. If you are just running through a script, you inevitably loose people; if you interact with them by asking them questions and responding to their experience in the moment, people stay with you. Of course, this means planning for interpretive tours a little differently--docents need to be well versed in the subject matter so that they can ad lib, and the interpretive goals spelled out clearly enough for the docent to know if their ad libbing is in line with them. I'd like to hear more on this from others! -Richard Chute RSABG [log in to unmask]