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Title: Tusayan Ruins: Timeline


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Tusayan Ruins Timeline Indoor Exhibit
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Question 1 Exhibit Presentation
  • Exhibit design Panels consist of glass cases
    with text, graphics, and objects.
  • Connections in time Interior panels focus on
    earlier time. Outside panels focus on modern
    American Indian groups.
  • Flow expectation Assumption that people go
    through the building and see the exhibits, and
    then visit the site.

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Question 2 Management Issues
  • Limited space.
  • Need to retain existing lighting because of
    artifacts on display.
  • Currently the only museum with an
    archaeology/cultural history theme.
  • Limitations of the building and historical
    exhibit, both inside and outside.

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Question 3 Project Planning Team
  • Lisa, overall supervision, worked on and approved
    text
  • Sara, volunteer, provided input on text
  • Sissy, interpretive specialist, lead person on
    graphics
  • Alice, Tina, Phillis, Rex, provided Native
    American input into project
  • Amy, gave archaeological content
  • Jan, gave archaeological content
  • Hopi tribe, gave input through consultation
  • Contractor, supplied production of exhibit

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Question 4 Team Process
  • Successful.
  • Good interaction with archaeologists and native
    Americans.
  • Had many discussions about exhibit and wayside
    content.
  • Worked successfully within their constraints as a
    team.

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Question 5 Public Interpretation
  • Revise timeline (see next slide).
  • Create brochure about Native American concepts on
    time.
  • Currently Tusayan exhibit is the main and/or only
    source for archaeological information in the
    park. Because of constraints of museum space,
    could have supplementary brochures that give in
    depth information on topics that cannot be
    covered in exhibit (both for Tusayan, prehistoric
    sites in general, Native American perspectives,
    whole human story, etc).
  • This is an interim solution until the park has a
    larger exhibit on general cultural history, such
    as at the visitors center.

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Question 6 Comments Recommendations
  • Timeline notes
  • Font color needs to be changed. No white.
    Southwest information should stand out with
    different color scheme. World trends should
    remain same color, which blends with current
    background. Suggestion to have column with
    southwest information wider than world trends
    column.
  • For each time period, put southwest events/trends
    on left side, and world events on the right. Only
    two to three events per time period (couple for
    southwest and couple for world events).
  • Under each event include an approximate date for
    context.
  • Include at least two images for each time period
    (1 southwest-related, 1 world event related).

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Additional Recommendations/Suggestions
  • Confusion with having same title on multiple
    cases.
  • Suggestion to keep symbols of artifacts as guide
    for visitors.
  • Ancestral Puebloan panel that deals with trade
    artifacts shown in panel do not come from areas
    identified on map.
  • Use word Dine instead of Navajo throughout
    exhibit. Add traditional name for other tribes,
    if it exists.
  • Good that the exhibit portrays time in two ways
    years ago and BC/AD.
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