My advice (even knowing nothing about your space and how visitors will move
around): stick with left to right. 

 

Dean Krimmel, Creative Museum Services/Qm2

Helping Museums and Cultural Nonprofits

423 Range Road  Baltimore, MD 21204

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How does your organization describe itself? Here's one of my favorites: 

WTMD is listener-supported radio from the campus of Towson University.

We believe that music can change the world.

 

 

From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Ann Craig
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 1:10 PM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] 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

Mailing:  1224 University of Oregon

Street Address:  1680 East 15th Street

Eugene, OR 97403

(541) 346-3116

http://natural-history.uoregon.edu





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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