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Something I came close to doing when I worked at a culture history museum:
Exhibits on functional equivalents among several time periods of the same
lineage of people (from skin sack to basket to crockery to metal container to
plastic) and on cultural analogs, e.g., Neolithic all purpose tool (spear point,
hide scraper, drill, fish scale remover, etc.) v. modern all purpose tool
(screwdriver, can opener, chisel, paint stirrer). Maybe the timeline would become
something the visitor seeks in order to organize the quaint information rather
than something to forget for all the events hanging off it. I never took it as
far as I would have liked. Never did any studies on its effectiveness.

Respectfully,

Charlie

Charles Stout
Media Arts Manager
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
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