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The Global Alliance for Heritage Interpretation is not an individual membership-based organization. We are an alliance of heritage organizations from around the world seeking excellence and that advancement of the field of heritage interpretation. If you belong to one of member groups, your voice is represented. For more information, please contact Chuck Lennox at admin@gahi.online.
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GAHI Background
For 30 years, at international events and meetings, members of heritage interpretation associations have aspired collectively to strengthen global understanding and cooperation among the organizations and their members. Key documents include:
- The Banff Declaration which resulted from the first World Congress on Heritage Presentation and Interpretation held in Banff, Alberta, in 1985;
- The Honolulu Charter which resulted from the Congress of Heritage Interpretation International held in Honolulu, Hawai’i, in 1991;
- The Freiburg Declaration which resulted from the first annual conference of Interpret Europe held in Freiburg, Germany, in 2011;
By combining the best of all three in a contemporary context, a draft Memorandum of Understanding was prepared.
Thereafter, several related debates took place:
- At the NAI annual conference in Denver CO in 2014;
- At the NAI international conference in Montreal, Canada in 2015;
- At the Interpret Europe conference in Kraków, Poland where three key targets were set for any global alliance of interpretation associations.
Following that, a draft document was prepared by a small, representative group for wide consultation.
The global heritage interpretation community is committed to using good interpretive practice to encourage people to understand, appreciate and protect the enormous reservoir of natural and cultural, tangible and intangible, heritage which is collectively our common wealth.
Read the GAHI Position Statement (Draft)
Who?
It is proposed that the global alliance starts as an informal and non-constituted federation of existing heritage interpretation membership organisations.
Purpose
Acting as advocate for the profession.
Raising awareness of interpretation.
Supporting heritage interpretation associations or representative individuals
What
An alliance, formed for mutual benefit, among heritage interpretation membership associations whose relationship is founded on a similarity of interests, purposes, ethics and qualities and with the overall objective of sustaining and developing good interpretive practice worldwide.
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