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Use stories to get people talking and spread your messages
Stories are vital to communicators because they are viral. They are contagious: they want to be passed on. That is how we recognize a story. People retell it. Stories get people talking. Putting our...
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The road to Santa Cruz and Museum 2.0. Step 1
For some time I have watched and read about Nina Simon and her work on The Participatory Museum, Museum 2.0 and Santa Cruz Museum. She is convinced that there is better, more vibrant, more social...
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Beyond words: OUT OF THE MARVELLOUS exhibition, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
Some of my very best moments are when the words stop. I am a word nerd. I sometimes feels my whole brain reverberates, resonates with the sound and feel of words. Spoken words, written words, read...
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Making the most of a training opportunity; 5 more steps towards Santa Cruz
I am still thrilled about the prospect of the “You can’t do that in Museums” Camp in Santa Cruz (see here for the background). I think it is going to be amazing and great professional development. My...
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‘Well, it’s cold up there in Buxton’. First impressions – what do we want to...
TellTale is hosting Slovenian interpreter, Janja Sivec. Here, as our guest blogger, she writes about her first impressions of Buxton – and its interpretation. When we think of first impressions, we...
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How can heritage attractions become ‘places where people talk …’ a CitizenM...
If museums want to become social spaces, they need to look about them. Just now I am looking at the Citizen M hotel in Glasgow. It’s a master class in creating a vibrant, welcoming, stimulating,...
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‘What would you make?’– how can we help adults engage with exhibitions?
A good exhibition inspires a creative response. When adults take time to leave creative responses to an exhibit, that is worth celebrating. Here are two examples from The Lighthouse in Glasgow,...
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Do you need a heritage interpreter?
What could a heritage interpreter do for you? Do you need one? What good do they do? You probably need a heritage interpreter if you have some aspect of natural or human heritage that you want to tell...
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Heritage interpretation notes from Stockholm Days One and Two
I know it’s easy to mix my work up with what other people do on holiday. Sometimes it’s even easy to mix my work up with what I do on holiday. But there is a difference – when I am working … Continue...
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Heritage interpretation in Stockholm Day Three: the lesson I needed to learn
I set out yesterday in search of Swedish artists – about whom I was impressively ignorant – and of five interpretation pointers I could write about here (see yesterday’s post). It turns out that are...
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