Monday, March 18, 2013

Visit to the Appaloosa Museum


My visit to the Appaloosa Museum in Moscow, Idaho gave me some ideas for ways to design and layout a successful heritage museum. We are currently working on a project in Valley, WA where we are to design the Old Valley Schoolhouse into a heritage museum. A lot of the features and layout in the Appaloosa Museum hit on the points that the people of Valley want to display in their future museum.

In this museum, they displayed their information in text on podiums in front of the exhibit. This is successful, but it's not fully accessible for people with disabilities. 

This shows a panoramic view of a curved wall in the museum. The layout and placement of the pieces on the wall is successful. The people of Valley expressed that they wanted something like this in their museum. 

A brick pathway that has the names of the people who donated to the museum is placed outside to recognize those who helped fund the museum. The people of Valley, thought of doing something similar to this for those who plan to donate. 

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