The grant vas approved the following February, and Freeman Tilden, a creative thinker and writer on park topics, embarked on the project. In the course of it he led tours at Castillo de San Marcos National Monument and observed many programs elsewhere. The result was Interpreting Our Heritage , published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1957. Interpreting Our Heritage , distributed throughout and beyond the Service, remains the classic treatise on its subject. Information, as such, is not Interpretation.
Interpretation is revelation based on information.
But they are entirely different things. However, all interpretation includes information. Interpretation is an art, which combines many arts, whether the materials presented are scientific, historical, or architectural. Any art is to some degree teachable. The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.