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The National Association for Interpretation (NAI) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to advancing the profession of heritage interpretation, currently serving about 5,000 members in the United States, Canada, and over thirty other nations. Individual members include those who work at parks, museums, nature centers, zoos, botanical gardens, aquariums, historical and cultural sites, commercial tour companies, and theme parks. Commercial and institutional members include those who provide services to the heritage interpretation industry.

Our Mission is to inspire leadership and excellence to advance heritage interpretation as a profession.
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What is interpretation?
Do you give talks or tours?
Do you interact with visitors to help them understand exhibits at your site?
Do you plan talks, tours, or exhibits?
Do you visit schools and other places to present educational programs associated with a heritage site?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you may be an interpreter.

Interpretation is a mission-based communication process
that forges emotional and intellectual connections between the interests of the audience and the meanings inherent in the resource.


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