Arts and Culture Translation Services

We provide Indigenous, international, and Canadian French translation services for the arts and culture sector in Canada and around the world, ensuring that exhibitions, programs, and other content are accessible to diverse cultural communities.

Translation for arts and culture requires sensitivity to tone and style and attention to subtle nuances of the source material. Our clients rely on us to deliver accurate, culturally mindful translations, ensuring that the intended message resonates and makes an impact across languages.

Our Services

  • Translation Services: Delivering accurate translations of exhibition descriptions, event materials, catalogs, guides, artists’ statements, promotional content, and more, ensuring visitors and participants can engage with cultural offerings.
  • Voice Over Services: Translating and recording audio guides for exhibitions and cultural tours, allowing visitors to enjoy narrated experiences in their native language.
  • Website Translation Services: Localizing website content for museums, galleries, and cultural institutions, making information, event details, and educational resources accessible to a global audience.
  • Brochure Translation and Layout: Translating and typesetting brochures and catalogs for exhibitions and events, ensuring international visitors can easily grasp detailed information about cultural heritage, artists, and artworks, as well as exhibitions and performances.
  • Transcription Services: Transcribing and translating captions or subtitles for arts and culture videos, enhancing accessibility for multilingual audiences.

Our Expertise

Our team is well-versed in handling complex cultural contexts, artistic expressions, and sector-specific terminologies. Our clients receive translations that are accurate, culturally resonant, and designed to reach their intended audiences effectively.

Cultural organizations that have worked with us include:

  • Historica Canada
  • National Arts Centre
  • Art Gallery of Ontario
  • Royal Saskatchewan Museum
  • New Brunswick Museum
  • Bytown Museum
  • Urban Shaman
  • Diefenbunker, Canada’s Cold War Museum
  • Library and Archives Canada
  • Discovery Centre
  • The Biosphere
  • Canadian Museum of History
  • Murney Tower Museum
  • Ingenium, Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation

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Our Arts & Culture Clients

The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum has worked with wintranslation since 2020 on many of our translation needs. With a wide offering of services including translation of documents, availability of specific Indigenous languages, and voiceover work, they are a fantastic and reliable firm to assist with exhibition, marketing, and audio guide work for museums and heritage institutions. We highly recommend wintranslation

Christine McGuire, Executive Director
The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum

As a local, not-for-profit community museum, the Bytown Museum is committed to serving the many and diverse communities that make up Ottawa. We were pleased to work with wintranslation on two major recent projects; translation of our permanent gallery text panels and a new storytelling website onto French and Anishinaabemowin. Working with wintranslation allowed the museum to offer its exhibition and programming to a wider audience and ensured the work was done with reliability, integrity to community values and professionalism

Courtney Gehling, Executive Director
Bytown Museum

We (The Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre) required short translations in a variety of dialects: Algonquin, Michif, Plains Cree, Woods Cree and Halq’eméylem. Wintranslation helped us find the best match from their available translators and overall had all of the dialects we needed. They were competent, friendly, and helped us meet our tight deadlines efficiently.

Amy Ede
Indigenous Theatre at the National Arts Centre

The museum contacted wintranslation because we needed text translated for a new panel. We wanted two dialects for the panel – Eastern Ojibwe and Mohawk. wintranslation went above and beyond to ensure the dialects were location appropriate and that they were done by knowledge holders from both communities.

Patience and commitment of wintranslation staff to ensure that we had high quality and accurate translation was amazing. Thank you wintranslation, the translators and community members for ensuring the museum was able to put forth an excellent panel that was true to both communities and that visitors to Murney Tower Museum will be able to experience both Eastern Ojibwe and Mohawk in print.

Danielle Marshall
Murney Tower Museum National Historic Site of Canada

When we needed a large, complex document translated from English to French on a tight timeline, wintranslation was able to take on the job without delay, and get it done on time with good quality. They even identified some issues with the English version that we were able to fix before it was published — an added value! When another document came in at the last minute just before a big event, wintranslation had no trouble accommodating the request which I knew would be too much to ask of a smaller independent contractor. Communications were swift, professional and friendly. I had one less thing to worry about at a time when many components needed to come together quickly and had to meet high quality standards. The company was very solution- and client-oriented, which I very much appreciated.

Margery Leach
Ottawa Cultural Alliance
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