As the main carrier of the information of the Science and Technology Museum, the exhibits at the Science and Technology Museum focus on science and knowledge, fun and entertainment. Yet it is common that one exhibit show only one scientific knowledge. It is sensible to consider the content of the exhibition item and the means of expression could embody with each other. In addition, the Mohr animation is a special form of visual phenomenon. Its fun, peculiarity and contradiction are widely used in the field of art design, but it has limitations and rarely employed by the design of exhibits in science and technology museums. If the optical illusion could be applied scientifically and reasonably in the design of exhibits, it would help raise the audience's interests, curiosity, and improve the audience's ability to obtain information. Therefore, this study took the constructivism learning method, Gestalt psychology, perspective and afterglow effect as the theoretical framework, combined the optical illusion with the human evolution process, and designed the exhibit model named “The Walking Memory”, to explore the possibility of combining well-known science and technology with abstract natural science knowledge.

optical illusion  /  Mohr Animation  /  exhibits model design