Would it work to make your timelines vertical?
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] FW: Visitors reading timelines?
"Will it be confusing to visitors?"
Hmm. Sounds like a good formative evaluation question to me.
Is there time to mock it up and bring visitors in from the right and talk to them about it? Talking to 15-20 visitors may give you a clear-cut answer.
And if there is no clear solution? As some have commented, you'll take your best shot, now knowing there is no perfect answer.
And whatever you find out, please do write it up so others can learn from your study!
Linda Wilson
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From: Ann Craig [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 12:10 PM
Subject: Visitors reading timelines?
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.
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?
OR
If visitors approach the panel or case from the right, should time start from the right and move to the left?
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.
What do you think?
Ann Craig
Assistant Director, Education
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
University of Oregon
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