Learn what should be in a master interpretation plan and receive interpretive planning coaching from John Veverka. While the course is intended to help small historic homes/gardens with small staff and budgets, participants for larger historic homes or museums and historic organizations that manage one or more historic homes will find the course to be very beneficial for their short and long term planning, marketing, and budgeting.

Resources provided will include:

Electronic text books Interpretive Master Planning Vols. 1 & 2

The Interpretive Trails Book

An example Interpretive Plan

and additional handouts

Who is this course for?

• Individuals, agencies or organizations that may currently be involved with an interpretive master planning project for their historic home/garden.
• Individuals, agencies or organizations that are planning on developing an interpretive master plan in the future for their site or organization.
• Individuals offering interpretive planning contract services who do not possess a college level degree in interpretive services or who have not had any formal training in interpretive master planning.
• Any individual interested in advancing their knowledge and skill level in heritage interpretation planning with a focus on Historic Homes and Gardens.

Learn more about this course from the instructor John Veverka in this video introduction.

Course Goals
The objective is to help coach you in the development of a great and reasonable interpretive plan for your site. Develop your skills as an interpretive planning project manager. Give you details of what should be in an Interpretive Master Plan for a Historic Home and Garden.

Participant Outcomes
Participants will learn about:

• Understand the model of Interpretive Planning.
• Understand all the components of the Interpretive Planning Content Outline.
• Gain an understanding of developing a comprehensive interpretive theme and objectives for the total interpretive site (home, garden, related out buildings).
• Learn the importance of developing an interpretive story-line flow chart.
• Learn how to develop standard interpretive site inventory and story development forms.
• Develop a 5 year implementation phasing strategy and implementation budget.
• Gain an understanding to the total interpretive planning process interpretive media would be apart of.
• Understand how understanding your market groups affect your interpretive plan media, topics and services planning.
• Feel confident in planning and designing successful interpretive master plans for excellent future interpretive experiences for your market groups.