[1] Heritage interpretation developed in US National Parks during the first half of the 20th century and was originally defined by Freeman Tilden in 1957.

[4] Current Managing Director is Helena Vičič (Slovenia), and Members of the Supervisory Committee are: Alexander Colvine as Chair (France), Andrea Hübner (Hungary), Jelena Močević (Serbia), Dragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir (Croatia).

Interpret Europe conferences have been held in Germany (2011), Italy (2012), Sweden (2013), Croatia (2014), Poland (2015), Belgium (2016), United Kingdom (2017), Hungary (2018) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (2019).

It led to the initiative "Engaging citizens with Europe’s cultural heritage",[8] which was awarded the European Union’s Altiero Spinelli Prize 2017.

In Europe, the association is related to Associação de Interpretação do Património Natural e Cultural (Portugal), Asociación para la Interpretación del Patrimonio (Spain), Association for Heritage Interpretation (UK), Interpretirajmo Hrvatsku (Croatia), Interpret Switzerland (Switzerland), and Sdružení pro interpretaci místního dědictví (Czech Republic).