Broadly, it should include what you want to interpret, who your audience is and the tools you will use to communicate with your audience. If you are using designers or specialist makers to work on your interpretation, they will need detailed briefs. Product arrived matching the specifications I requested but also matched the photographs and item description. For anyone interested in our natural and historic heritage--park volunteers and rangers, museum docents and educators, new and seasoned professional heritage interpreters, and those lovingly characterized by Tilden as "happy amateurs"-- Interpreting Our Heritage and Tilden's later interpretive writings, included in this edition, collectively provide the essential foundation for bringing into focus the truths that lie beyond what the eye sees. It can bring a sense of meaning or understanding to our heritage that goes way beyond simply factual learning.

It reminds us also of the importance of audiences – the visitors who come to experience our interpretive offerings, millions of them globally every year.We are not just interpreters of language; we are champions of progress, translating the principles of equality into the language of business success.

Myriad case studies and concrete examples showcase practical responses to the challenges of interpretation across the sector, be it a major museum or a unique outdoor experiential site.

Slack also provides practical guidance about how to deliver different forms of interpretation, while avoiding potential pitfalls. Reading is an important life-skill and heritage projects provide an ideal environment to practice literacy skills.

A History of Place, covering eight sites across England, was led by disabled people, with disabled people informing every aspect of development including approaches to interpretation.Interpretation is a mission-based communication process that forges emotional and intellectual connections between the interests of the audience and the meanings inherent in the resource. The project manager will review costs as tenders are received with the design team and quantity surveyor. Little was published on interpretation until after the Second World War when Freeman Tilden (1883–1980), perhaps the best well-known of the pioneers of modern interpretation, gave us one of the most influential interpretive set texts. Since Tilden’s book was published, others have refined his definition in different ways, but his key principles are still widely adopted.