CONFERENCE REVIEW The International Heritage Interpretation Conference 2013: Bringing the World’s Interpreters Together. Sigtuna, Sweden JON KOHL PUP Global Heritage Consortium Organizers of the third annual international conference of the European Association for Heritage Interpretation, based in Germany, selected a town to host the conference that not only reduced costs but oozed with interpretive possibility. Sigtuna is Sweden’s oldest city and considers itself an outdoor museum with historic downtown, large lake, ancient ruins, and runes. They housed the conference in an off-season high school that kept most participants in close proximity and glowed with educational purpose as well as midsummer energy in a country otherwise cursed by long, dark winters. Off site, the local conference partner, the Swedish Center for Nature Interpretation, coordinated a grand variety of provocative sites for study trips and post-trip excursions including Skansen, the world’s first open air museum, located in Stockholm’s heart; the Birka World Heritage Site, which contains the largest and most complete archaeological remains of a Viking community; Vasa Museum, Sweden’s most popular museum built around a seventeenth century warship that sank 30 minutes after its launch from Stockholm; Tyresta National Park, the closest park to the capital, is the gateway to Sweden’s protected areas; among others. While payment was a bit of a hassle for some foreigners since organizers did not accept credit card payments, the food was good; programming unfolded with precision, and at least from a participant’s view, the conference went off without noticeable bumps. The printed programme radiated professionalism due to its clean, attractive look and useful contents, belying the young association’s nary three years of existence. The theme — Sharing Our Natural and Cultural Heritage: Interpretation Can Make Us Citizens of the World — proved particularly apt given the impressive diversity of international representation. Delegates arrived from over 30 countries, not just within Europe. Korea had a delegation of more than 20 people, Costa Rica had six (baby included), as well as representatives from Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, USA, Russia, Mexico, and across Europe, notably from the UK and Sweden. Despite the theme’s appropriateness and given this author’s belief that an interpretive crowd j. of community arch. and heritage, Vol. 1 No. 1, February, 2014, 100–102 ß W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014 DOI 10.1179/2051819613Z.0000000004