Welcome to Hands on Heritage
At Hands on Heritage, we create storytelling projects that connect communities. We do this by collaborating with museums and exhibit designers to develop outstanding visitor experiences.
As professional writers and historians, we research, interpret, and develop creative content from captions and artifact identifications to summaries, to narratives for script or display. We adhere to the highest standards of ethical practice as we shepherd our storytelling projects to completion.
Interested in learning more about Hands on Heritage storytelling projects? Want to know more about how the creative ways we help to conserve cultural and environmental legacies? Contact us – no project is too small, nor too large, to discuss.
SERVICES
What We DoWhat We Do
We are storytellers and we collaborate with museum and exhibit designers to develop outstanding visitor experiences. We specialize in researching, interpreting, and developing creative, relevant content. Our projects connect communities, and conserve cultural and environmental legacies, with an emphasis on interpretation and education.
PROJECTS
Our Partners & PortfolioOur Partners & Portfolio
It’s our pleasure to work with distinguished partners, both locally and nationally, on legacy projects that honor the residents and communities in which they serve. The projects in our portfolio include researching and writing creative content for museum exhibits, to helping to develop heritage and nature parks.
PEOPLE
Who We AreWho We Are
Hands on Heritage is a professional communications team headed by Robin Van Auken. Robin is an author, an educator, and a registered professional archaeologist, a skillset she uses every day as a heritage specialist. The Hands on Heritage team is unique for embedding itself within communities, developing relationships with citizens, and finding the unheard voices, the unseen images.