Tag Archives: Interpretation

Collaboration, community and curation

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

I’m on the train to London for today’s workshop on ‘creating a mobile and social learning culture in your organisation’. It’s early. Earlier than i like, but on the plus side, beautiful views of the sunrise through the trees in … Continue reading →

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Creating meaning in social learning: interpretation

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

I spent yesterday afternoon in The Hermitage in Amsterdam, a great museum, currently housing an exhibition on Peter the Great, the modernising eighteenth century Russian Tsar. The gallery space is large, well laid out, containing a wide variety of artefacts … Continue reading →

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Heading North: Painting in perspective

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

I realise that i’m grumpy when i paint. It’s not that i’m in a bad mood, it’s just that i’m very focused. The thing about watercolours is that they’re alive, or rather, they are until they dry, so you’re on … Continue reading →

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9/11: How is history made and how is history told? Stories from Ground Zero.

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

New York is making history. Not by something it’s doing today, but by how it’s dealing with something that happened a decade ago. Visiting Ground Zero last week was a strangely emotional and compelling experience, not so much from any … Continue reading →

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How do we learn from art? Observations on interpretation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

I know it’s art, because it’s in a gallery at one of the premiere cultural institutions in the world, but to me it just looks like a pile of bricks. Continuing the American theme as i work my way around … Continue reading →

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The truth and the stories that surround it. Fact and fiction in interpretation.

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

Interpretation is the task of taking physical evidence, documentary evidence and contextual knowledge and using it to tell a story. It’s the process by which we seek to give meaning to archaeological remains, the process by which we seek to … Continue reading →

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Exploring the past. How mobile devices are helping to bring history to life.

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

I’m in London for a couple of days, which has given me plenty of time for walking around, looking at the architecture. One of my favourite activities when staying away from home is to roam around in the evening, with … Continue reading →

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Reading the stories from the stones. Interpreting our built heritage and learning from graffiti.

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

I spent yesterday at Bodiam castle, one of the most picturesque and magical medieval castles in England. Although ruinous on the inside, the outer Walls and towers stand intact, sitting within a fairytale wide expanse of water in the moat. … Continue reading →

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Interpreting our military history. The challenges of joining social and industrial historical stories.

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

I spent part of this afternoon on an aircraft carrier. Not a real one, i should point out, but rather the award winning gallery of the Fleet Air Arm Museum (http://www.fleetairarm.com/aircraft-carrier-experience.aspx). Clearly the holiday destination of every schoolboy in the … Continue reading →

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The role of the storyteller in education. How we use objects and narratives to build coherent histories.

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

Do you know the difference between a crocodile and an alligator? I was in the Natural History Museum in London at the weekend with some friends, and this was one of the many new things that i learnt. Museum education … Continue reading →

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