4-868: The National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center is a 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m) interpretive center about the Oregon Trail located 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Baker City, Oregon on Oregon Route 86 atop Flagstaff Hill. It is operated by the Bureau of Land Management in partnership with Trail Tenders and the Oregon Trail Preservation Trust, and offers living history demonstrations, interpretive programs, exhibits, multi-media presentations, special events, and more than four miles (6 km) of interpretive trails. Exhibit themes include area natural history, pre-emigrant travelers and explorers, Native Americans, pioneer life,
8-420: Is an institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage . Interpretation centres are a kind of new-style museum, often associated with visitor centres or ecomuseums , and located in connection to cultural, historic or natural sites. Interpretation centres use different means of communication to enhance the understanding of heritage. To aid and stimulate the discovery process and
12-505: The United States General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management , and the mining and settlement of Northeast Oregon. The book Trail of a Dream by Dorthy Wooters chronicles that dream from the early planning stage in 1987 through funding and construction and, ultimately, opening day in 1992. Interpretive center An interpretation centre , interpretive centre , or visitor interpretive centre
16-486: The visitor's intellectual and emotional connection to heritage, the main presentation strategy tends to be user-friendly and interactive, and often use scenographic exhibitions and multimedia programs. Many interpretation centres have temporary exhibitions related to a specific aspect of the site. An interpretation centre can be a viable solution for effective communication of heritage information in municipalities and rural areas where resources may not exist to establish
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