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Deep Time Spine

The Greenhouse World

The Eocene Epoch · 56 – 34 m.y.a.

Working Concept Plan

The experience this room is designed to create

Earth is hot, wet, and ruled by strangers. Terror birds — ten feet tall, hooked beaks the size of horse skulls — chase prey across forested plains. Six-horned rhinos with saber-teeth crash through warm subtropical canopies. In the sea, land mammals become whales. In the night sky, bats become the first flying mammals. The world is experimenting with every shape life can take.

Translate The Greenhouse World into a legible, embodied chapter of planetary history while keeping scientific evidence and visual reconstruction clearly distinguished.

Planning statusThis page is a directional design brief, not a finalized curatorial, architectural, or construction commitment. It will evolve through scholarly, community, accessibility, conservation, and design review.
Experience Framework

How the plan unfolds

01

Visitor journey

  • Approach through a threshold that establishes the time scale of The Eocene Epoch · 56 – 34 m.y.a..
  • Encounter the central environmental change or living system at human scale.
  • Close with one clear consequence that carries visitors toward the next room.
02

Spatial & atmospheric plan

  • Use landscape-scale imagery, material samples, and directional sound without obscuring the evidence.
  • Balance cinematic immersion with readable labels, resting points, and a low-sensory route.
  • Keep the passage to the next room visible so the spine reads as one continuous story.
03

Interpretive commitments

  • Separate verified evidence, interpretation, and artistic reconstruction in the label hierarchy.
  • Review language and object context with relevant scholars and affected communities.
  • Provide captions, transcripts, tactile or descriptive alternatives, and a low-sensory path.
04

Next development priorities

  • Confirm the curatorial thesis and source packet.
  • Identify anchor objects, replicas, media, and rights requirements.
  • Prototype the central visitor encounter at full or representative scale.
  • Complete accessibility, conservation, safety, and ethical-display reviews.
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