Providing interpretive materials is one way you can meet HLF’s mandatory aim to ‘help people to learn about their own and other people’s heritage’. This guidance explains how you can use interpretation to communicate to the public the interest, significance, value and meaning of heritage and sets out up-to-date costs for a range of interpretative methods.
Useful for…
Anyone planning new interpretation, such as information boards, trail leaflets or audio-guides, as part of a project delivered under any of our grant programmes.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Our aims
3 What do we mean by interpretation?
4 Why interpret your heritage asset?
5 Equal access
6 Audiences and their needs
7 It’s the content that matters most
8 Environmental sustainability
9 Working with consultants and designers
10 Community involvement
11 Training staff and volunteers
12 Evaluation
13 Example costs of interpretation
14 Consents, permissions and copyright
15 Choosing your media
16 Information and advice
Appendix - Our grant programmes