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English translation: gallery session


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French term or phrase:médiation
English translation:gallery session
Entered by: Miranda Joubioux
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16:16 Nov 6, 2009
French to English translations [PRO]
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
French term or phrase: médiation
This is in a brochure for tourists.

I don't know how to translate médiation in this sentence

Le musée développe une programmation dynamique d’expositions temporaires, médiations et visites, activités pédagogiques et culturelles.

I found a question on 'médiation' on KudoZ but, in this instance, cultural activities are already mentioned.

I was thinking of 'promotional activities', but felt that a brainstorm would be a good idea.
Miranda Joubioux
Local time: 01:43
gallery session
Explanation:
Found this re the Tate Modern. It seems to mean educational visits on various topics - aspects of understanding/interpreting art -, and I think it fits your context, as well as being instantly "understandable". I also think you need something "countable"

Free Bookable Gallery Sessions (KS1 - KS5)
Gallery sessions at Tate Modern develop students skills and confidence in looking at art and developing meanings. These session complement Examination courses, aspects of the Art and Design National Curriculum and can also be used for developing visual literacy.
Introductions — Students gain skills by looking at and discussing modern and contemporary art and are introduced to key ideas relating to the selected themes. Some themes include abstraction, conflict, citzenship, globalisation, etc as well as sculpture and Installation within the gallery.
Collection Display Workshops – These workshops can support classroom topics or can be a way of building students' subject knowledge. Themes for these workshops include Material Gestures, Poetry and Dream, Idea and Object and States of Flux.
Working with Sketchbooks — This aims to refresh students' approach to working with sketchbooks.
Art and Language — The workshops explore how verbal and written responses to art can be expanded to aid the process of interpretation, and supports work on art and literacy.
Art and Contemporary Citizens - Students consider the local, national and global communities they inhabit and their role within them. It will encourage them to develop cultural, social, political and gender awareness as well as exploring how art can act as an agent of change

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I think "Gallery workshops" would also work well here

Tate Papers - Jolt, Catalyst, Spark! Encounters with Artworks in ...
In a gallery workshop, the learner is invited to step inside the framework of ..... Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation: Reflections on Tate ...
www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/.../fuirer... - Cached
Selected response from:

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:43
Grading comment
Many thanks to all!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3gallery session
Carol Gullidge
4 +1interpretation
Gilla Evans
4talkphilgoddard
4reflections/lecturesemiledgar
4shows
konungursvia
3encounter
Emma Paulay
3guided activities
MatthewLaSon
3guided tour
Stephanie Ezrol


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
interpretation


Explanation:
this is difficult because the word might be misunderstood to mean language interpeting in English, but I know that many museums now employ "cultural interpeters" for this purpose, and this seems to be the word used. At the Louvre they have médiateurs which they refer to as interpreters.

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Note added at 4 mins (2009-11-06 16:20:42 GMT)
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I mean "interpreters" of course

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Note added at 7 mins (2009-11-06 16:24:10 GMT)
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see How Museums Work - Interpretation

http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_856.html

and the many references to jobs in museum interpretation on the web.

Gilla Evans
Local time: 00:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 60

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Chris Hall: I would say "interpretations".
14 mins
  -> yes, in this case the plural would work

neutral  Helen Shiner: I agree that this is often the job of museum staff/art historians, but I doubt it would be advertised to the public as such. Much prefer gallery sessions even if interpreting is what then goes on.
57 mins
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
shows


Explanation:
I don't think it's about interpreters.

konungursvia
Canada
Local time: 19:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Chris Hall: You have misunderstood what Gilla is trying to say here.
9 mins
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
gallery session


Explanation:
Found this re the Tate Modern. It seems to mean educational visits on various topics - aspects of understanding/interpreting art -, and I think it fits your context, as well as being instantly "understandable". I also think you need something "countable"

Free Bookable Gallery Sessions (KS1 - KS5)
Gallery sessions at Tate Modern develop students skills and confidence in looking at art and developing meanings. These session complement Examination courses, aspects of the Art and Design National Curriculum and can also be used for developing visual literacy.
Introductions — Students gain skills by looking at and discussing modern and contemporary art and are introduced to key ideas relating to the selected themes. Some themes include abstraction, conflict, citzenship, globalisation, etc as well as sculpture and Installation within the gallery.
Collection Display Workshops – These workshops can support classroom topics or can be a way of building students' subject knowledge. Themes for these workshops include Material Gestures, Poetry and Dream, Idea and Object and States of Flux.
Working with Sketchbooks — This aims to refresh students' approach to working with sketchbooks.
Art and Language — The workshops explore how verbal and written responses to art can be expanded to aid the process of interpretation, and supports work on art and literacy.
Art and Contemporary Citizens - Students consider the local, national and global communities they inhabit and their role within them. It will encourage them to develop cultural, social, political and gender awareness as well as exploring how art can act as an agent of change

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Note added at 22 mins (2009-11-06 16:38:57 GMT)
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I think "Gallery workshops" would also work well here

Tate Papers - Jolt, Catalyst, Spark! Encounters with Artworks in ...
In a gallery workshop, the learner is invited to step inside the framework of ..... Contemporary Art and the Role of Interpretation: Reflections on Tate ...
www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/.../fuirer... - Cached

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Many thanks to all!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Chris Hall: I agree with "gallery workshops".
20 mins
  -> many thanks Chris - I prefer workshops, too!

agree  Helen Shiner: I know this as gallery sessions as the Tate has it - workshops has the sense of making things rather than interpreting them, so I would avoid that, FWIW.
40 mins
  -> many thanks Helen! I thought workshops might be the more universally meaningful (FWIW!) and they can cover all sorts of different areas, eg, "language workshops"

agree  tradugrace: I agree and share Helen remark about workshops
12 hrs
  -> many thanks tradugrace!
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
médiations
guided activities


Explanation:
Hello,

I believe that may be meaning this.

I hope this helps.

MatthewLaSon
Local time: 19:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
reflections/lectures


Explanation:
I think these are sort of relaxed "conférences" where a subject is discussed using the museum's resources.

emiledgar
Belgium
Local time: 01:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 77
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59 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
talk


Explanation:
This is one possibility - less formal than lecture, which makes me think of people sitting in a lecture theater.

philgoddard
Local time: 18:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Chris Hall: Any reason why you haven't gone for "talks"?
12 mins
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
médiation (et visites)
guided tour


Explanation:
I think the relevant term may be "médiations et visites," which I hope in some school and museum websites.

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-11-06 17:53:02 GMT)
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I mean to write "which I saw" not "which I hope."

Stephanie Ezrol
United States
Local time: 19:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Carol Gullidge: surely médiations and visites are 2 separate terms -- although they may be related?
17 mins

neutral  Chris Hall: Yes, they are two completely separate terms as stated by Carol.
41 mins
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2 days22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
encounter


Explanation:
A tentative suggestion based on the term used in the ref below.


    Reference: http://www.museumlab.jp/english/greeting/mediation.html
Emma Paulay
France
Local time: 01:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 27
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