My advice (even knowing nothing about your space and how
visitors will move around): stick with left to right.
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From: Museum discussion
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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
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University of Oregon
Street Address: 1680
East 15th Street
Eugene, OR 97403
(541) 346-3116
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