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Here are two examples of the venue map used at
Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute
of Popular Science (a.k.a. Buhl Science Center), which
was open as a public museum from 1939 to 1991:

1987 - Page 1:
< http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer1.JPG
>

1987 - Page 2:
< http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer2.JPG
>

1989- Page 1:
<
http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer50th-1.JPG
>

1989 - Page 2:
<
http://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/BuhlExplorer50th-2.JPG
>

gaw

--- Sarah Hunt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:09:51 -0500 
From: "Sarah Hunt" <[log in to unmask]>  Subject:
Request for venue maps 
To: [log in to unmask]

> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of
> Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums
> and related institutions.
>
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> 
> Apologies for cross-posting.
> 
> Please send me your venue map - the one that's for
> your visitors and is
> probably handed out when they enter your building to
> help them find their
> way around.
> 
> I am looking for examples of the good, the bad, the
> ugly (and the
> beautiful) as well as the useful and the
> not-so-useful, for a potential
> research project.
> 
> If you have a few words to add about the design and
> evolution of the map,
> your personal opinion of its effectiveness or
> feedback from visitors, all
> the better.
> 
> I'd prefer the printed version that your visitors
> use, so please post it
> to the address below.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Sarah Hunt
> 
> Visitor Studies Curator
> 
> Riverside Museum project: Museum of Transport, 1
> Bunhouse Road, Glasgow,
> G3 8DP, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)141 287 2679.
> 
> www.glasgowmuseums.com

gaw

Glenn A. Walsh
Electronic Mail - < [log in to unmask] >
NEWS - Astronomy, Space, Science:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/#news >
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.planetarium.cc > 
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago: 
  < http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer & Optician John A. Brashear: 
  < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com > 
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: 
  < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc > 
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.incline.cc >

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