Principles
Six Principles of Interpretation
From Interpreting Our Heritage by H. Tilden1. 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.
2. Information, as such, in not Interpretation. Interpretation is revelation based upon information. All interpretation includes information.
3. Interpretation is an art, which combines many arts, whether the materials presented are scientific, historical or architectural.
* Interpretation is a performance art.4. The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation
5. Interpretation should aim to present a whole rather than a part.
6. Interpretation addressed to children should not be a dilution of the presentation to adults, but should follow a fundamentally different approach.
