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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"exhibit design"”.
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Zoo exhibit design: the influence of animal visibility on visitor experience
Naturalistic exhibits have become popular among zoo designers as well as zoo visitors. However, one problem associated with naturalistic exhibits is that many times visitors cannot see the animals. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the effect of this lack of visibility on visitor …
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How Museums Engage Visitors’ Self-Efficacy
… any purpose in applying effort to engaging with exhibits at the museum. This study attempts to understand museum visitor experiences by collecting surveys from 100 participants and interview data from 15 participants, and uses this data to characterize the AstraZeneca Human Edge exhibits at the …
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Design Plan for the Sawmill Town History Wing at the Texas Forestry Museum
… that is outdated and in need of a refreshing exhibit design based on current best practices. Using a previous museum audit as a guide, the new exhibit will have better flow, panel aesthetics, content, and interactive elements. By creating a new exhibit, the museum is better able to educate and …
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Museums in Collaboration: A Study of the Joint Relationships between Native Communities and Small Museums
<p>Collaborative exhibitions built by Native communities and museums often seek to reposition Native peoples as the authors and experts of their own cultures. This capstone project, done for the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the University of San Francisco, explores what measures it would take …
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Wild Tigers in Captivity: A Study of the Effects of the Captive Environment on Tiger Behavior
Humans maintain wild animals in zoological parks for the purposes of education,conservation, research, and recreation. However, abnormal behaviors may develop in animals housed in human-made environments, if those environments do not allow them to carry out their natural behaviors (such as …
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Making Museums Fashion Forward and Forward Thinking: A Proposal for a Rotating Exhibit Program at the Levi Strauss & Co. Museum
… project is a theoretical proposal for a rotating exhibit program that was developed for the Levi Strauss & Co. museum in San Francisco, California. It was conceived with the intent to help eradicate some of the stigmas associated with museum fashion exhibitions. This capstone explores the …
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Designing for those without voices : transitions from nature to built form -- from animal to human
… all aspects of the zoo, most importantly its design. Visitors journey to the zoo in search of animals. They could find them behind bars, in the center of a deep moat or search for them in an extensive landscape that replicates the animal's wild habitat. The later is clearly the situation that …
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Cost-effective Designs for Supporting Correct Execution and Scalable Performance in Many-core Processors
… of these processors requires that hardware designers not only exploit the advantages, but also consider the problems introduced by the new architectures. Such challenges arise from both the processor's increased structural complexity and the reliability issues of the silicon substrate. In …
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Brewing History: How Local Option and Prohibition Altered the Texas Brewing Industry
… industry. This thesis and subsequent digital exhibit provide a better understand of prohibition and local option, while also explaining how the argument against prohibition was based upon business decisions rather than a desire to drink.</p>
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PRESERVING, INTERPRETING, AND DISPLAYING MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY: ESTABLISHING THE PATTON STATE HOSPITAL MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE
… is to assist future public historians with the design and establishment of a museum and/or archive, be it related to mental health history or to projects with other themes, and to provide information to other mental health facilities that wish to establish their own museums.</p>