Any interpretation that does not somehow relate what is being displayed or described to something within the personality or experience of the visitor will be sterile.
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Information, as such, is not interpretation. Interpretation is revelation based upon information. But they are entirely different things. However, all interpretation includes information.
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Interpretation is an art, which combines many arts, whether the materials presented are scientific, historical or architectural. Any art is in some degree teachable.
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The chief aim of interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.
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Interpretation should aim to present a whole rather than a part, and must address itself to the whole man rather than any phase.
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Interpretation addressed to children (say, up to the age of twelve) should not be a dilution of the presentation to adults, but should follow a fundamentally different approach. To be at its best it will require a seperate program. |