Translation, Cultural Heritage and Museum

This course will outline the intertwined nature and mission of preserving, responsible managing and disseminating the resources of cultural heritage and artefacts in museums in local society as well as various Sinophone communities. Proper management and responsible displaying of exhibition texts is consequential to present the rich meanings of cultural, natural, or historical objects and to aid the elaboration of the national narrative.
With reference to the relevant theories of heritage studies and eco-translatology, the course aims to identify translation strategies and assess appropriateness based on functions of museum text types. Hopefully this not only hones students’ translation skills but also cultivates their interest in bilingual curatorship or docentship.
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
• Describe the core concepts and latest theories on heritage and museum studies from global and local perspectives.
• Articulate the merits of preserving cultural heritage by using sustainability materials in Singapore.
• Communicate and disseminate the symbiotic relationships of inclusive environment, community care and wellbeing to broader audience.
• Differentiate and identify the nuance and sensitivity of cultural issues through the analysis of multilingual text, ranging from source to target languages.
• Utilise and apply a range of technical tools and strategies to understand informative text type translation.
• Criticise and appreciate how the cultural artefacts can be presented by exhibition labels, catalogue entries, historical documents, and educational materials by linguistic, visual and multimodal tools.
• Produce and present your own narrative to introduce cultural heritage by multimodal materials.

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