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ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISPLAYS AND THE PUBLIC

Archaeological Displays and the Public

Museology and Interpretation

edited by Paulette M. McManus

Second Edition

University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications, Vol. 4

Originally published by University College London Institute of Archaeology

First published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 1996 The Institute of Archaeology

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ISBN 978-1-873132-67-8 paperback

Contents

Peter Ucko

Paulette M. McManus

Greg Richards

The Development of Empuries, Spain, as a Visitor-Friendly Archaeological Site

Jordi Pardo

David M. Simmons

Jim Specht and Carolyn MacLulich

Sally MacDonald

Roman Boxes for London's Schools: An Outreach Service by the Museum of London

Jenny Hall and Hedley Swain

Paulette M. McManus

Carol Scott

Elaine Sansom

Conservation 'As Found': The Repair and Display of Wigmore Castle, Herefordshire

Glyn Coppack

Brian Bath

Paulette M. McManus

Brian Bath is a project designer working for The Visual Connection, London. At the time of writing he was Head of Design and Interpretation at English Heritage with responsibility for all aspects of site presentation. In his time at English Heritage six awards for outstanding interpretive practice were given to projects he supervised.

Glyn Coppack is a senior Inspector of Ancient Monuments with English Heritage whose conservation projects over the past twenty years have included Lulworth Castle, Fountains Abbey, Mount Grace Priory, and Wigmore Castle. When not working on major conservation projects he is also an authority on the archaeology and planning of monastic sites.

Jenny Hall is Roman Curator in the Department of Early London History and Collections at the Museum of London. A classicist by degree, she has worked for the museum for over 25 years. She is responsible for the Roman collections and for the Roman London Gallery, refurbished in 1996. She played a major role in the museum's temporary exhibition, High Street Londinium, where archaeological evidence had to be translated into full-scale reconstructions of Roman buildings. She has gained considerable experience of interpreting Roman London to a wide audience, the school Roman box scheme being one facet of public accessibility.

Sally MacDonald is manager of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London. Since 1980 she has worked in regional and community museums in England, mostly with social history and decorative art collections. She set up and ran the museum and heritage service in Croydon, which opened to the public in 1995. She sits on the Heritage Lottery Fund's Expert Panel for museums, libraries and archives, on the Registration Committee for Resource, and on the Museums Association's Professional Development Committee. Her current research interests include public attitudes to Ancient Egypt and the role of object handling in stimulating learning.

Carolyn MacLulich B.Ed (Hons), M.Litt (Mus Studies ) is Head of the Division of Education at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia. She is principally involved with exhibition and program policy and development. Carolyn has been at the Museum since 1986. She has tertiary qualifications in education and anthropology, and a master's degree in museum studies, focusing on public program accessibility and exhibition text production. Carolyn has been Vice President of Museums Australia NSW, a Board member for the Museum Studies course at University of Sydney, and a member of the Museums Advisory Committee to the NSW Minister for the Arts.

Paulette McManus has worked as a consultant specialising in the interface between visitors and museums and heritage sites since 1983. She has worked for many national and municipal museums and sites in Britain and abroad. Since 1994, she has also been a part-time lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, where she teaches Museum Communication and Heritage & Site Interpretation to post graduate students and supervises doctoral research into museum and heritage issues.

Jordi Pardo is the Chief Executive of IKONOS CULTURAL SL., Barcelona a company that designs and develops heritage projects. At the time of writing he was the Managing Director of the Centre for the Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. He wrote of his recent experience as the Director of the Organisme Autonom Conjunt Monumentes d'Empuries (OACME). An archaeologist by training he also has postgraduate business school qualifications in Public Administration and Management. Throughout his career he has also been a lecturer in Museum Studies at the Universities of Gerona and Barcelona.

Greg Richards obtained a PhD in geography from University College London. He founded the European Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) in 1991. With ATLAS he has led many EU-funded projects in the fields of tourism education, cultural tourism, sustainable tourism, tourism employment and ICT in tourism. He is currently a lecturer in leisure studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His main research interest is cultural tourism, and he has edited volumes on Cultural Tourism in Europe (1996) and European Tourism and Cultural Attractions (2001).

Elaine Sansom is the Director of South East Museums Service, the museum and gallery development agency for the south east of England. She is currently the Secretary of ICOM UK and is the external examiner for the University of Newcastle Museum Studies course. With a degree in archaeology and postgraduate qualifications in museum studies and management, she has worked in field archaeology in the UK and Sri Lanka, in the local authority museum sector in the UK - most recently as Director of Watford Museum and Art Gallery, and as a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology.

Carol Scott is Manager of Evaluation and Audience Research at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Australia. She is President of the Evaluation and Visitor Research Special Interest Group and also a member of the Museums Australia National Council.

David Simmons is Director of Visitor Services and Senior Archaeologist at Old Sturbridge Village, where he has worked since 1982. He assists in the direction of ongoing archaeological fieldwork and directs the museum's program of audience research. He holds a BA in Anthropology and History from Duke University, and an MA in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a doctoral candidate in Historical Archaeology.

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