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AHI’s conference this year offers you three days of networking, lively debate and inspiring insights into partnership working for interpretation. Conference papers will look at places as diverse as the Cairngorms National Park and Tyne & Wear Museums, and there are site visits to Kielder Water & Forest Park, the Anglo Saxon monastic remains at Jarrow and, of course, Hadrian’s Wall in the heart of Northumberland National Park.

We’ll be discovering the challenges and benefits of collaborative working between sites and organisations, and uncovering the positives and pitfalls of creating a seamless interpretive experience for visitors.

The Wall is part of a trans-national World Heritage Site, Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The conference will be a fascinating opportunity to find out how  organisations and agencies, including Northumberland National Park, the National Trust, English Heritage and the Vindolanda Trust, co-operate here to provide complementary interpretation of life and the landscape before, during and after the Roman occupation.

You might like to complement your conference visit to the Wall with a trip to the British Museum’s major new exhibition about Hadrian. Find out all about his extraordinary life, loves and legacy at the Museum until 26 October. ‘Hadrian: Empire and Conflict’ explores his contradictory persona and passions, and features over 180 objects brought together and displayed for the first time in the UK.

The morning before the conference, Michael Glen will be running a workshop on 'Poetry and Prose for People at Places': an ideal way to make your stay in Northumberland even more rewarding.