How people negotiate their way through museums and galleries can have considerable
implications for how they relate to and interpret exhibition content. This is obvious at a
banal level: if we go through quickly without paying attention to most parts of the
exhibition then we will have probably have a very different understanding of it from if we
attend to every exhibit sequentially. An important question for exhibition design,
however, is how museum space can be organised so as to best elicit the kinds of responses
that exhibition-makers intend.