<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve been asked by Professor Irina D. Mihalache to distribute information about an upcoming survey exploring museum practices. The survey will go live on January 2, 2020.</div><div><br>All the best,</div><div><br>Ryan</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Interpretation of Field</span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> is a collaborative project housed at Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, designed to document and share current practices of interpretation professionals in four types of museums. Our main data-collecting tool is a survey, which we developed to take the pulse of contemporary practices in museum interpretation, and to map out tools, strategies and knowledge used by practitioners. This research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada’s federal research funding agency.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u></u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span><u></u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">If you are an interpretation professional working in an </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(112,48,160);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">art museum/centre, an encyclopedic/general (multi-disciplinary) museum, a natural history/anthropology museum, or a science/technology museum/centre</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">, we invite you to take our survey <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">between <b style="">Jan. 2 and March 1, 2020</b></span>. Results will be available on the project’s website in Summer 2020.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u></u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span><u></u><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">To complete the survey, visi</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">t </span><a href="https://interpretationasfield.com/survey/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://interpretationasfield.com/survey/</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(200,38,19);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">***Survey goes live on Thursday, January 2, 2020</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot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