PROV Workshop

Thursday 21st February

Stratford Historical Museum

Start 9.30am for 10am, finish 4pm

Training Workshop from PROV: 
Interpretation: Revealing the stories in collections.

Designed to improve skills in interpretation, this training workshop offer tips and ideas to engage visitors with museum objects.

Topics include: principles of heritage interpretation, making connections with audiences and use of media.

Learn techniques to help impart the messages you want to share. Enhance your visitors’ experience through meaningful and provocative interpretation of your collection and you will connect them to your region’s heritage forever!

Through activities in this workshop, you will have the opportunity to contribute ideas and knowledge of your area and collection to the development of Public Record Office Victoria's touring exhibition, 'What's in a Name'. This exhibition is about how land has been lost, lived in, named, bought, sold and altered in Victoria. The naming of places in Victoria is a story about our relationship to land. Through looking at how and why places are named, or renamed, we can explore the changing relationship Victorians have had, and continue to have, to land and country.

Bio of workshop facilitator:

Pam Enting is a director of Spellbound Interpretation which specializes in interpretation planning, design and implementation. Pam has a graduate diploma in natural and cultural heritage interpretation and a teaching qualification. She has taught Heritage Interpretation at university, TAFE and professional development level. Major interpretation planning projects include The Golden Pipeline, WA, the Collingwood Children's Farm, Warrnambool’s Lady Bay, Cape Otway Lightstation and Buchan Caves Visitor Centre. Between 2006 and 2010 Pam was Heritage Victoria's Outreach Co-ordinator, responsible for the development of the Victoria's Framework of Historical Themes and the Community Collections Conservation Support Pilot Project in South West Victoria.

Bookings essential  (e-mail stratfordhs@ausvic.net if unable to negotiate booking form)

Lunch Supplied.     No Charge.