Volume 29, Number 1, Summer 2024

The theme for this edition is Emotions. We have two main features on the theme. However, you will also find it explored in Interpretation Hacks and Interpretation Research Lab. Claire Dalton and Andrew Todd share their approach to embedding emotions in the AHI award-winning National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park, County Roscommon. Carolyn Lloyd Brown and Jo Scott make the case for using emotional mapping in interpretive planning. Emotions is rounded off by Bob Jones as he reminds us of when this subject was featured in Past Issues of the Journal.

Interpretation Australia and Interpret Europe to introduce themselves as Global Association for Heritage Interpretation members. We also have a preview of a new exhibition at SS Great Britain.

Interpretation Hacks continues our series of practical ideas. In this issue we cover emotions in Live Interpretation and the use of jokes in Write Track. Sustainable interpretation investigates carbon neutrality while Digital Horizons focuses on 3D design tools. We also put the spotlight on AHI’s excellent Interpretive Writing best-practice guide.

A new feature, Provocative Fellow, invites AHI Fellows to challenge us to think about an aspect of our practice drawn from their experiences. Our first piece is by Susan Cross who discusses how difficult it is to research and interpret peace. Interpretation Research Lab features Philip Ryland’s study of emotional responses to displays generated by a range of exhibits and he attempts to establish whether the emotional trigger from the exhibit might be grouped according to the type of response stimulated. Stuart Frost looks at what the British Museum has learned from Room 3, their experimental exhibition space that ran for 18 years and hosted 70 displays.

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