Maitland Showground Interpretation Plan

Abstract

<p>Current heritage practice includes developing interpretation plans that provide substantive material and guidelines for informed, creative and innovative means to deliver messages about the history and significance of specific sites and to engage varied audiences with those sites. The danger is that interpretation plans become formula driven, and risk providing template solutions that do not always engage in depth with the unique features and histories of a site.'Maitland Showground Interpretation Plan' engages in depth with the history of the site, and with the features and significance of specific structures, spaces and activities (extant and past). It provides new insights into the history and changing roles and uses of the Showground, and locates these within their local and national contexts. It also offers site specific suggestions for interpretation media that importantly take into consideration the community and volunteer based and non-profit nature of the HRA&HA, and aims to do so in a community and user friendly form.</p>