My tendency is to read an exhibit from left to right. For example, There
is a display at Jamestown (Virginia) that shows seasons in relation to
food availability (hunting, farming, etc). One wall has four recessed
display nooks. Labeled left to right they are Winter, Spring, Summer,
Fall. The visitor approaches the exhibit from the right and travels to
the left.
I felt confused when I read the exhibits in right to left order: Fall,
Summer, Spring, Winter. Why was I going backwards in time through a
year? It was not until I came through the exhibit later in the day and
looked at that wall from a distance and saw: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall.
So keep that in mind. If that helps.
Patrick McQuillan
Education and Outreach Specialist
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
Ann Craig wrote:
> We are constructing an exhibit on the co-evolution of horses and
> grasslands and are having some disagreement about which direction our
> timelines and evolutionary "bushes" should move.
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> Should a single panel or case have time move from the left to the
> right - from millions of years ago to the present - regardless of the
> direction which visitors approach the panel or case?
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> If visitors approach the panel or case from the right, should time
> start from the right and move to the left?
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> I think visitors will always look at the case as a whole and then
> start observing from the left to the right, just how they read.
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> What do you think?
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> Ann Craig
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> Assistant Director, Education
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> Museum of Natural and Cultural History
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> University of Oregon
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