S. Dangerfield Interpretive Planning

Free workshop

Inspiration Knows No Borders: Interpreters Inspiring Each Other Across Landscapes and Lines
A partnership between Interpretation Canada and NAI
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
11:00am Pacific / 2:00pm Eastern
90 minute webinar FREE

Join your fellow interpreters from across Canada and the United States for a free, interactive webinar that celebrates the power of shared inspiration.

Dr. Jacquie Gilson will draw from her doctoral research on inspiration in interpretation to explore what keeps visitors, staff, volunteers, and organizations energized and engaged—especially in times of challenge. Together, we’ll reflect on how we can support one another across borders, share ideas that uplift, and most importantly, discover ways to stay inspired in our own practice.

Whether you’re new to interpretation or a seasoned voice in the field, this session offers a spark of connection, reflection, and community.

Registration link in comments below.
Interpretive Guides Association
Interpretation Canada: Members' Learning Community
NAI Western region
NAI Northeast Region
NAI Heartland Region
NAI Region 10
Ottawa Museum Network/ Réseau des musées d'Ottawa
National Association for Interpretation: Great Lakes Region

Nice to see a US president museum use tech

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4qyfNTPw_G/?igsh=cWVraWEwcGJrYzcy

In Chicago last week, I had a chance to see a prototype of the Power of Words exhibit at the Obama Presidential Center. The final version will be 88 feet and show how the words we use can transform the lives of the people around us. Check it out:

Congratulations this award is very much deserved.

Beadwork, embroidery and quillwork: Manitoba exhibit wins Governor General’s Award

See video link in comments.

If you are involved in exhibit work you need to read this article. Thanks for sharing it Don.

Resisting the Colonial Imagination: The Role of Exhibition Design in the Decolonial Project It is Monday morning at First Americans Museum (FAM), and a group of fifth graders are bustling with excitement as they embark on a gallery tour. A museum educator welcomes the students in her nati…

Well we are impressed.

A world-renowned American artist known for her 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and her 1988 Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala., has been chosen to design the rooftop terrace at Glenbow Museum.

Link to article is in comments.

Here's a good news story. A birchbark canoe well over 100 years old has a new home in Kanien'kehá:ka territory after spending decades in storage in Quebec and Minnesota.
The 110-year-old canoe was donated to the permanent collection of the Kanien'kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center in Kahnawà:ke, south of Montreal, last week by St. Paul, Minn., resident Walt Gordon.
The link to the story and photos of the canoe are in the comments - its a beauty.

This whole can't put links to Canadian media on Facebook is annoying. There are lots of great stories about our profession with Canadian content. So I'm going to try putting the link in the comments and see what happens. The first story is about a very cool interactive exhibit - virtual tour of the House of Commons. Well worth the 2.8 million by the sounds of it. (Really for such a project that isn't much money.)

It's well past time that museums returned ancestorial remains and artifacts to their communities. The arrogance of the attitude that 'they don't have the facilities to protect them, like climate controlled museum' is beyond contempt. These are the communities to care for as they wish, including letting them turn to dust. Return them!

It’s High Time We Brought Home Indigenous Remains and Belongings | The Walrus Millions of items were removed from Indigenous communities and are now held by Canadian museums and institutions

Riel, Canada's first Indigenous Premier, was a complex man. His letters might provide more insight into some of his decisions, like choosing to come back to Canada for his people when he knew the likely outcome. His selflessness is heartbreaking.
If you can't see the letters in person there's a link in the article to read them online.

New-found, intimate letters from Louis Riel's 'lost years' in exile featured at Calgary gallery | CBC News Never-before-seen writings by Louis Riel displayed at a Calgary exhibition provide a glimpse into the father of Manitoba's personal life at the centre of two historic Métis resistances he led in Western Canada.

For all you folks designing trails here's a cool idea...

With the summer holidays soon upon us, remember to keep an eye out for our fixed-point photography posts around the Derwent valley. Just take a photo of what you see from the post and upload it to us so that we can keep a record of the changes brought on by moorland restoration. Severn Trent https://tinyurl.com/ycxppza2