How can ever-increasing numbers of visitors enjoy their experience of a historic house and understand its significance, without compromising the physical survival of its interiors? The National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a UK conservation charity, is fostering the collaboration of conservators with gardens advisers, learning and interpretation consultants, and property staff. They are developing methodologies which combine an assessment of how visitors can be physically accommodated in sensitive interiors with ‘story-telling’ narratives, to build a planned, coherent, emotionally engaging experience for visitors.
Conservation for Access Redux: Narrative, Visitor Flow and (2012)