Abstract
The museum is a space that provides communication between the visitor and the exhibitions. The most important matter to consider in planning the museum is the usage of the space for the visitors. Unlike existing exhibition space of history and arts, modern museum; in particular, Science museum, delivers information through various exhibition. To accept the changes and the developments for the better environment, the study of how the visitors receive the exhibition has to take place first. In this study, the spectators, depending on the type and characteristics of the human sensory receptors, exhibition information, and the process leading up to the viewing behavior was observed. Through this, it showed a significant classification of visitors' behavior depended on the type of sensory receptors. The study was done at Gwacheon National Science Museum, and mainly the distribution of visitors visiting hours was recorded. The study of observing time of exhibits was used for analysis by dividing the types and characteristic of its scope, not by average watching time, but by the quartile scope. Division based on human sensory receptors required viewing in exhibits was compared with each other. Recorded and analyzed watching manner: time of exhibits by dividing display information into spatial and verbal codes. The type of watching time is clearly exposed according to these two code systems, and it will be possible to use this in planning by interpreting this as visitors share of exhibitions space. It is hoped that understanding the temporal property in exhibits is expected to help select exhibition method for exhibits and make an effective planning for arrangement of exhibition spaces.
