Webinar: Interpretation Panels: An Introduction

Find out how to make interpretation panels work for you with this introduction to panels from Bill Bevan, author of the AHI best-practice guideline about panels. Bill will introduce some key considerations when commissioning, locating, writing and designing a panel. He will then take questions and discuss how you can make this standard interpretive medium do its job and more innovative options that might be more effective than a rectangular graphic panel.

Bill worked as a tour guide at Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage in Grasmere during the 1980s. He developed an interest in heritage interpretation as an archaeologist because he believes that we all have a right to learn about our past. For Bill, interpretation helps us to understand something about the differing ways people at different times perceived and inhabited their worlds.

Bill set up inHeritage in 2005 and was the Interpretation Project Officer for the Peak District National Park Authority between 2006 and 2010. A lot of his current interpretation work is with helping community groups realise their ambitions while ensuring interpretive best practice.

Bill is also a writer and photographer, and has also been a terrible footballer, live movie sound-tracker and DJ - playing as far a field as Australia, Greece, Portugal, Zambia, Zanzibar as well as the UK.

Bill was AHI Chair for three years and Chair of the Awards Group for eight, during which time he led on relaunching the Awards and then reformatting them to a more inclusive engagement and visitor experience focus.

This webinar will be hosted by AHI Trustee, Kev Theaker (MAHI)

This webinar will be run on Zoom, register online and an invitation will be sent to you a day or two before the event.

This is one of a series of webinars based on AHI's set of best-practice guidelines which are available for AHI members to download for free from the AHI website.