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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Freeman Tilden was one of the first people to set down the principles and theories of heritage interpretation in his 1957 book, Interpreting Our Heritage.
Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.
The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.
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.