Park Interpretation Strategy

Explaining the Park to visitors


Objectives for the Interpretation

1.To enable visitors to easily find and access all the Park's facilities
2.To help all local residents feel the Park really is a place for them and 
make full use of it
3.To inspire, enthuse and engage visitors with the rich meaning and value 
of the Park. This includes culture, ecology, sport and history, in the past, 
present and future
4.To make the most of the Park's learning and educational value for young 
and old
5.To enhance local regeneration by linking the Park to its surroundings and 
drawing visitors from further afield
6.To ensure all the interpretation is sustainable in the long term
7.To ensure the interpretation is appropriate for a place of such 
significance but which is also a park


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Interpretation Approach

Welcome and orientationLight interpretive treatment of the Park including events, 
performances and public artThe human face of the ParkInterpretive focal pointsOrganisedLearningPark Interpretation Strategy

Locations for Interpretation Focal Points

DinosaursPark OverviewNature and EcologyThe Crystal Palace
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The Subway

•Protection
•Conservation
•Public Access
•Key point for telling story of 
the Palace



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A New Museum

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Where it is now
Somewhere else in the Park
In the new building needed to protect the Subway
A new Museum,

in a high qualitybuilding,

built over the Subway, to conserveand protectthe 
historic space and make it publicly accessible,

with a viewing point,

a learning suite,

an information point,

a caféand museum retail

All in onebuilding to minimize construction in the Park

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