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Barbara Mertin (Austria)Barbara Mertin (Austria)
Senior Ranger & Beaver SpecialistSenior Ranger & Beaver Specialist
Danube Floodplain NationalparkDanube Floodplain Nationalpark
Varna / BulgariaVarna / Bulgaria
20.4.201220.4.2012
An educational activity which aims to
reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original
objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than
simply to communicate factual
information.Freeman Tilden
Interpretation is relevant to the experience of the visitor
Interpretation is revelation based on information
Interpretation is an artInterpretation should provoke not simply
instructInterpretation should present a whole, not just a
partInterpretation for children should follow a
different approach
INSIDE : The experience happens in INSIDE : The experience happens in your visitors‘ perceptions, seen your visitors‘ perceptions, seen by their point of view, created by by their point of view, created by a combination of their feelings, a combination of their feelings, sensations and prior experiences. sensations and prior experiences. You can‘t control this!You can‘t control this!
OUTSIDE: An experience is made up OUTSIDE: An experience is made up of many seperate pieces outside of many seperate pieces outside the visitor. You can control nearly the visitor. You can control nearly every aspect of this!every aspect of this!
To understand the parts, we must first see the whole.
Unless helped, we often fail to find, see, or comprehend. Discovery makes learning fun.
PropPropA physical aid that A physical aid that strengthens or strengthens or supports an supports an interpretive interpretive messagemessage
Models and replicas appear for the
more or the less real such as
animal sculptures made of plastic , wood or synthetic
resin, puppets, cast of animal
tracks, etc.
Instruments & Audio examples
such as bird whistles, CD/MP3-
Player for demonstrating bird calls, instruments
for imitating natural sounds ,
bat-detector
Guided imageryGuided imagery
A mental journey that is facilitated, A mental journey that is facilitated, led or described led or described by the interpreter to help visitors by the interpreter to help visitors experience a situation or scenario that experience a situation or scenario that they probably would not they probably would not be able to experience in personbe able to experience in person
Knowing your audienceKnowing your audience
Researching the ResourceResearching the Resource
Connecting Tangibles to Connecting Tangibles to IntangiblesIntangibles
Defining Universal ConceptsDefining Universal Concepts
Providing people with new Providing people with new perspectivesperspectives
Landscapes have histories and these are Landscapes have histories and these are contained contained
not only in the soils and fauna, and in the not only in the soils and fauna, and in the traces of traces of
human life, but also in the history of the human life, but also in the history of the ways of ways of
seeing the Land.seeing the Land. Bernard Bernard
Cohen 1997Cohen 1997