Hi Ann,
    We have a timeline on the wall that goes right to left, but it  
arranged in the direction visitors walk through the exhibit. Because  
of the arrangements of the displays, it wouldn't work left to right  
and would, in fact, probably be confusing.
    Good luck with your decision.

Heather McClenahan, museum assistant/web master
Los Alamos Historical Society
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Quoting Ann Craig <[log in to unmask]>:

> 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
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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
> Assistant Director, Education
> Museum of Natural and Cultural History
> University of Oregon
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> http://natural-history.uoregon.edu
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