
Breaking bad in the museum: The ethics of antiheroic interpretation
Talk/workshop, Interpret Europe Conference

Talk/workshop, Interpret Europe Conference

S+T+ARTS AQUA MOTION project workshop, 3 February 2026, online Project website

Interpret Europe Online Symposium on “The role of narratives in 21st century heritage interpretation”, 26–27 February 2026 As the professional conversation about heritage interpretation develops, it embraces concerns, concepts, and terms from various sources. For example, the announcement of this symposium refers variously to ‘frames’, ‘narratives’, ‘stories’, ‘themes’, and ‘brain scripts’. Individual definitions notwithstanding, it remains largely unclear how these terms relate to each other and why we should use them and not others. To help assemble a coherent and user-friendly professional language, and to address the current lack of an organising conception, I propose that we describe interpretation as…