Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: Presenting the Romans – Issues and Approaches to Interpretation
- 1 Tradition and Innovation: Creating a New Handbook to the Roman Wall
- 2 Re-enactment and Living History – Issues about Authenticity
- 3 Reconstruction Drawings: Illustrating the Evidence
- 4 Images from the Past: Fibulae as Evidence for the Architectural Appearance of Roman Fort Gates
- 5 Multimedia Interpretation Techniques for Reconstructing the Roman Past at the Limes Museum in Aalen and at the Limes in Baden-Württemberg
- 6 Vindonissa: Changing Presentations of a Roman Legionary Fortress
- 7 Bringing to Life the Ancient City of Viminacium on the Danube
- 8 An International View of Reconstruction
- 9 A Roman Museum for Vienna
- 10 Woerden – Hoochwoert (Dutch Limes): Showing the Invisible
- 11 Mainlimes Mobil: Presenting Archaeology and Museums with the Help of Smartphones
- 12 Voices from the Past: Presenting (re)Constructed Environments through Multimedia Technologies
- 13 Digital Reconstruction and the Public Interpretation of Frontiers
- 14 Information, Disinformation and Downright Lies: Portraying the Romans
- 15 Romanes eunt Domus?
- 16 The Living Frontier: the Passing of Time on Hadrian's Wall
- 17 The Hadrian's Wall Interpretation Framework: Audience Research
- 18 The Hadrian's Wall Interpretation Framework
- 19 Applying the Hadrian's Wall Interpretation Framework
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Heritage Matters
19 - Applying the Hadrian's Wall Interpretation Framework
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: Presenting the Romans – Issues and Approaches to Interpretation
- 1 Tradition and Innovation: Creating a New Handbook to the Roman Wall
- 2 Re-enactment and Living History – Issues about Authenticity
- 3 Reconstruction Drawings: Illustrating the Evidence
- 4 Images from the Past: Fibulae as Evidence for the Architectural Appearance of Roman Fort Gates
- 5 Multimedia Interpretation Techniques for Reconstructing the Roman Past at the Limes Museum in Aalen and at the Limes in Baden-Württemberg
- 6 Vindonissa: Changing Presentations of a Roman Legionary Fortress
- 7 Bringing to Life the Ancient City of Viminacium on the Danube
- 8 An International View of Reconstruction
- 9 A Roman Museum for Vienna
- 10 Woerden – Hoochwoert (Dutch Limes): Showing the Invisible
- 11 Mainlimes Mobil: Presenting Archaeology and Museums with the Help of Smartphones
- 12 Voices from the Past: Presenting (re)Constructed Environments through Multimedia Technologies
- 13 Digital Reconstruction and the Public Interpretation of Frontiers
- 14 Information, Disinformation and Downright Lies: Portraying the Romans
- 15 Romanes eunt Domus?
- 16 The Living Frontier: the Passing of Time on Hadrian's Wall
- 17 The Hadrian's Wall Interpretation Framework: Audience Research
- 18 The Hadrian's Wall Interpretation Framework
- 19 Applying the Hadrian's Wall Interpretation Framework
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Heritage Matters
Summary
Museological provocation is a tricky art form. It is easy to excite folk sensually with artefacts, much harder to make them think. I visited a week after the [Roman Frontier] gallery had opened and there were already many handwritten visitor comment labels. One states what I was struggling to articulate: ‘I have visited Hadrian's Wall numerous times … this is the first time I have seriously considered the social and personal consequences of the wall’.
(Lewis 2011)Introduction
Hadrian's Wall is one of the greatest monuments of the ancient world. It tells us as much about ourselves as about the past. We should take pride in it and help unlock its potential to teach, inform and stimulate our own and future generations. The purpose of the Interpretation Framework (Adkins and Mills 2011) is to enable us to do just that; to create a structure within which more detailed strategic planning and coordination can take place and through which each site and museum can build on its own particular strengths and opportunities to create distinctive, differentiated and complementary experiences for visitors. Realisation of these opportunities will in turn deliver wider benefits:
• enhance the visitor experience and visitor enjoyment for the widest possible audiences;
• increase visitor numbers and, more importantly, encourage visitors to stay longer and to visit more sites;
• improve awareness and understanding of the WHS, its significance and the need to conserve and protect it, thus supporting the objectives of the WHS Management Plan;
• promote UNESCO's WHS values which seek to share the heritage and experience of people around the world.
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- Presenting the RomansInterpreting the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, pp. 181 - 192Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013