Translating for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Sites

Translation is essential for museums, galleries, and heritage sites to engage with foreign-language visitors, but there has been little available training in this area. This book aims to help fill that need by providing practical training in translating interpretive and information texts, focusing on the museum context. It covers three broad groups of texts: fixed labels and wall panels, leaflets and other portable learning resources, and catalogues and guides, including websites. It concludes with a call to place translation centre stage in museum, gallery, and heritage practice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 188 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Translation is essential for museums, galleries, and heritage sites that wish to engage with foreign-language visitors. Providing texts in foreign languages enables these visitors to make sense of what they see displayed, but there has hitherto been little available in the way of practical training in this area of translation. This book aims to help fill that need by focusing on the translation of interpretive and information texts, particularly in the museum context. It looks at three broad grouping of texts from the museum text system: fixed labels and wall panels, leaflets and other portable learning resources, and catalogues and guides, including a section on websites. It concludes with a call to place translation centre stage in museum, gallery, and heritage practice. The book is designed to be suitable for both individual and class-based learning and is of use as a coursebook for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as for practitioners in the sector.

Weight: 348g
Dimension: 233 x 155 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138571860