Interpretive media is our passion—place-based, purpose-built. We work with our colleagues throughout the National Park System to develop and produce digital media, films, historic furnishings, interpretive plans, maps, museum exhibits, publications, signs, and wayside exhibits.
We also provide expertise in accessibility, contracting, cost estimating, graphics research, museum conservation, project management, reprinting, rehabbing, and replacing existing media.
Our products and guidance ensure an accessible park experience.
Voices from the past can speak, inaccessible peaks can be climbed, and complex processes can be revealed through this powerful medium.
Standard map formats help to establish a uniform identity for National Park Service brochures.
Websites, Apps, Social Media. We embrace today’s technologies to give our visitors, info they want, where, when, and how they want it.
Exhibits offer multi-media experiences that use diverse techniques to interpret park resources, teach concepts, and stimulate interest.
The collection contains more than 11,000 pieces of art bought by HFC for park brochures, exhibits, films, posters, and publications.
Interpretive planning includes visitor experiences in parks, like interpretation, orientation, education, safety, and resource protection.
HFC’s conservators provide professional conservation services for NPS museum collections from parks across the U.S. and its territories.
The collection preserves and shares the overarching Service-wide stories of the history, culture, and management of the NPS.
The most traditional and low-tech of the various media, publications remain a core element in a park’s interpretive program.
As a frequently used means of communication, signs welcome visitors, identify landmarks, provide direction, and warn of potential dangers.
Wayside exhibits as captioning the scenery and provide site specific interpretation of historic, cultural, and natural landscapes.
The Accessibility Guidelines for NPS Interpretive Media is for NPS employees and contractors who develop and approve interpretive media.
Learn how Harpers Ferry Center is guided by the principles of clarity, simplicity, and nonbiased language.
We provide exhibits, publications, films, signs, apps, planning, and museum conservation to help visitors experience our national parks.
Last updated: December 20, 2018