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.