#freeman tilden

[afraid-of-woodpeckers]

getting a degree in public history has made it so I'm even more awkward around national park ranges (critically endangered). usually I just can't think of anything to ask so I stand there silently but now I have to actively work to stop myself from asking about their thoughts on the continued relevance of freeman tilden

[lester-nygaard]

the quote is from Interpreting Our Heritage, 4th edition, by Freeman Tilden

[interpretingtexas]

In the course of a long career, the interpreter will meet the pestiferous, the unmangeable, the ineducable, and some whose apparent reason for existence is to provide the hangman with work. These are not the many; they are the few.

Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage

[interpretingtexas]

In the museum, the interpreter can seldom come into contact with his visitor. In lieu of that, he must leave a message.

Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage

[mercurygray]

Since the early days of interpretation, we have multiplied and refined many times the devices that one employs. But basically the principles upon which the interpreter works are unchanged. One must love the work and the subject, and one must like the people. Not necessarily persons; some of these vacationers are deplorable specimens. No; people. Once must be ever learning while teaching. Patient, enthusiastic. The interpreter sees the vital importance of relating the subject of this discourse to something within the knowledge, the experience, and the ideals of is or her group...[and] often a single spark will set the desirable fire.

Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage

[elyunqueblog-blog]

Interpretation is an art, which combines many arts, whether the materials presented are scientific, historical or architectural. Any art is in some degree teachable.

Freeman Tilden (Interpreting our heritage)

[elyunqueblog-blog]

"Through interpretation understanding, through understanding appreciation, through appreciation protection." Freeman Tilden

[metamuseums]

The true interpreter will not rest at any dictionary definition. Besides being ready in his information and studious in his use of research, he goes beyond the apparent to the real, beyond a part to the whole, beyond a truth to a more important truth.

Freeman Tilden