Museum visitors may base movements on visual cues received from the surrounding environment; these choices can have an important effect on narratives communicated by museum exhibits. This presentation shall explore how museum gallery layout impacts visitor space-use and the narratives communicated by the exhibits.

Examples will be drawn from research conducted at the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the High Museum of Art (Atlanta). Special emphasis will be paid to interactions among gallery morphology, exhibition narratives and space use patterns using space syntax analysis methods.