Great Tours!

Creating tours that are interesting and educational for visitors (and guides!) is a challenge every historic site faces. Great Tours! helps to focus clearly on the material culture and significance of a site and then shows how to use that focus to train and motivate guides. The book shows how to manage tours to a fresh new level that is engaging and educational for visitors of all ages and abilities. Readings and workshop activities frame the process throughout and allow professionals to develop what is most appropriate for their site, while working to strike a realistic balance between ideals and every day reality. Great Tours! offers a unique combination of theoretical guidance and practical activities, supplemented by reproducible forms and a bibliography and index, that make it an invaluable resource for anyone involved with planning tours and training guides.

Author Biography

Barbara A. Levy was the Interpretation Planner for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, Planning Division, and later became Director of Education and Interpretation for the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. In 1993 she founded Barbara Levy Associates, a consulting group that has helped history museums and historical organizations improve their interpretation, planning, and education programmes. Sandy Mackenzie Lloyd was the first curator of Wyck, a historic house in Philadelphia, and the curator of education at Cliveden, a property of the National Trust. Susan P. Schreiber is Director of Interpretation and Public Programs for the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., working on the creation of the City Museum of Washington.