
Children and heritage interpretation – Experiences as a mum and an interpreter.
June 24, 2022Wednesday 29 June 2022, 18:00 CEST This webinar will recall Tilden’s sixth principle about tackling younger minds. Do we follow a fundamentally different approach as Tilden suggested? Which tools and methods are good to use? How do children experience heritage? If you wish to take part in ...Read More

Dub London: Bassline of a City– GAHI webinar.
June 22, 202230 June, 18:00 CEST The Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation presents innovative and impactful heritage interpretation happening around the world with a webinar series. Join us for the next one: Dub London: Bassline of a City You can register here. Meet the team behind the Museum of London’s ...Read More

The House of European History in Brussels established a new award scheme, the European Democracy Sites.
June 2, 2022The goal for 2022 is to nominate one historical site per member state of the European Union. Being awarded the European Democracy Sites award will support the visibility of a historical site and its efforts to connect with other historical sites and educational institutions. The 2022 Special Focus Theme will ...Read More

Evaluation of holistic interpretive experiences
May 20, 202226 May 2022, 18:00 CET Evaluation of interpretive services is a part of the planning and implementation of interpretive projects. It gives us insights into the quality and effectiveness of our ideas, drafts, mock-ups, and final services. Evaluation is easier to conduct when we measure what people have ...Read More

Would you like to help organise our conference 2023?
May 14, 2022As you know, IE conferences will now be held every two years. The last one took place online in October 2021, so the next conference will be held, face-to-face, in 2023. The conference should ideally be scheduled for spring 2023 and be planned in such a way as ...Read More

A new webinar series by Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation
April 22, 202219 May, 18:00 CEST The Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation is inviting all interpreters around the world to a series of webinars in 2022. Join us for the next one: Whose Story is it Anyway: Interpreting the Cultural Mosaic of Canada Interpretation is often used as a way of ...Read More

How heritage interpretation is helping us preserve biodiversity in North Macedonia
April 22, 2022Thursday 28 April at 18:00 CET This webinar will cover the topic of how cultural and natural heritage interpretation is helping us to preserve our very own bee, the indigenous melliferra macedonica. The challenges that we were facing in the past in our efforts to protect and promote sustainable ...Read More

The role of heritage interpretation in exhibition planning
March 19, 202223 March 18:00 CET Exhibitions are a complex medium of heritage interpretation. Although historically linked to heritage and educational institutions, primarily museums and galleries, exhibitions have also found their place in presenting a wide range of human achievements and ideas, increasingly outside the traditional cultural sector. Assembling and running ...Read More

A new webinar series by Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation
March 12, 20227 April, 18:00 CEST The Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation is inviting all interpreters around the world to a series of webinars in 2022. You can register here. It is the dreadful fate of humanistic education: As soon as violence starts, it is too late. What could heritage interpretation ...Read More

IE Webinar: Hermeneutics and its relevance for practical heritage interpretation
February 9, 202228 February 18:00 CET In 1957, Freeman Tilden wrote “Interpreting our heritage”. That same year, the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer was invited to the university of Leuven, Belgium, to introduce his concept of hermeneutics. His subsequent work, ‘Truth and method’, became one of the most notable philosophical ...Read More

IE Webinar: Heritage interpretation across cultures
January 20, 202227 January at 18:00 CET Interpretation is a communication medium that should promote intercultural understanding, respect, and recognition of cultural differences. Learning facts about the differences is not enough and to develop intercultural interpretive /communication skills, we must start from ourselves: we must become aware of core cultural concepts ...Read More