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Hello everyone,

The Lindsay Wildlife Experience is looking into creative inexpensive ways to offer bilingual signage to our Spanish-speaking guests. We don't have a lot of space for additional signage nor the budget so we're hoping for a creative solution that any museums might have used and found to be successful. We're currently considering either the use of a booklet that can be checked out at the front desk that will map out the translation of key exhibit text or placing QR codes at the start of each exhibit that guests can scan with their phone and access that exhibits signage in Spanish. 

If you have done anything similar, we would love to hear about your success and lessons learned. Please feel free to reply to me via email at cschwandt@lindsaywildlife.org


Thanks!

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Christina Schwandt
Interim Education Manager
Lindsay Wildlife Experience
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Hello Christina,

Will Lach from Eriksen Translations. We assist nearly every major cultural institution in North America, as well as the National Park Service. I'd love to chat with you about  solutions, as we've assisted parks with constraints similar to yours. You can reach me at the contact info below:

Will Lach
Eriksen Translations
917 370-2808
will.lach@eriksen.com

I'll also be exhibiting at AAM this year.

Best regards,

Will

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Will Lach
Director of Sales
Eriksen Translations Inc.
Brooklyn NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-17-2022 05:25 PM
From: Christina Schwandt
Subject: Bilingual Signage Resources

Hello everyone,

The Lindsay Wildlife Experience is looking into creative inexpensive ways to offer bilingual signage to our Spanish-speaking guests. We don't have a lot of space for additional signage nor the budget so we're hoping for a creative solution that any museums might have used and found to be successful. We're currently considering either the use of a booklet that can be checked out at the front desk that will map out the translation of key exhibit text or placing QR codes at the start of each exhibit that guests can scan with their phone and access that exhibits signage in Spanish. 

If you have done anything similar, we would love to hear about your success and lessons learned. Please feel free to reply to me via email at cschwandt@lindsaywildlife.org


Thanks!

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Christina Schwandt
Interim Education Manager
Lindsay Wildlife Experience
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Hi Christina,

This is Carlos Hevia from Multilingual Connections. We have a multilingual QR code platform that we developed for cultural institutions for exactly this type of situation. If you'd like to connect with us and learn more, you can reach me through the contact information below.

Best regards,

+ 1 (815) 993-8828 | carlos@mlconnections.com

multilingualconnections.com

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Carlos Hevia
Multilingual Connections, LLC
Evanston IL
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-17-2022 05:25 PM
From: Christina Schwandt
Subject: Bilingual Signage Resources

Hello everyone,

The Lindsay Wildlife Experience is looking into creative inexpensive ways to offer bilingual signage to our Spanish-speaking guests. We don't have a lot of space for additional signage nor the budget so we're hoping for a creative solution that any museums might have used and found to be successful. We're currently considering either the use of a booklet that can be checked out at the front desk that will map out the translation of key exhibit text or placing QR codes at the start of each exhibit that guests can scan with their phone and access that exhibits signage in Spanish. 

If you have done anything similar, we would love to hear about your success and lessons learned. Please feel free to reply to me via email at cschwandt@lindsaywildlife.org


Thanks!

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Christina Schwandt
Interim Education Manager
Lindsay Wildlife Experience
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