Information Display: The Spiro Exhibition

Information displays can provide unique opportunities to help audiences learn about a given subject or domain. The purpose of this project is to create an information display for the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's exhibition "Spiro and the Mississippian World," set to release in 2019. The exhibition is scheduled to maintain artifact assemblages from the Spiro Mounds site and will detail its life-cycle from construction episodes circa 1000 AD to excavations in the 1930s. The primary goal of the information display is to serve as an interactive map that helps museum patrons learn more about the Mississippian world outside of the Spiro site, such as prominent cities, important trade routes, and art styles spanning wide regions. A secondary goal is to create a generic information framework that could be similarly used in other exhibitions. Methodologically, this project draws on various tools used from Design Thinking such as competitive analysis, journey mapping, personas, and user scenarios. The final deliverable for this project is a medium to high fidelity prototype that will undergo further development as we move toward the exhibition's release.