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1 – Exhibition plan and Audio Guide code

The hall is an L-shaped corridor with a first section of 27 meters, followed on the left by another 12 meters in length and a width of 2.5 meters.

Once we pass through the entrance door to the hall, the hallway begins with a 7.5-meter ramp. This hallway is interrupted by two doors on the right, and on the left is a balcony where a 14-meter canvas with a whale design has been hung.

The drawings and illustrations are located on the right, with 10 points of interest about the whale's eye and retina. There is also a display case with a model of a whale's eye and a scale model of a whale with a human doll for comparison. On the left, a 14-meter canvas hangs with a life-size drawing of a whale. On the left side, at the end of the corridor, there is a display case with a drawing by Santiago Ramón y Cajal about the neural connections of the squid retina and a drawing comparing it with a whale's eye.

At the end of this corridor, straight ahead, there is a square light box measuring more than a meter and a half on each side, located on the floor, with a photograph of a giant whale neuron.

The corridor continues to the left with four stops on the right explaining glaucoma and the characteristics of aqueous humor circulation inside the whale's eye.

At the end of the hallway, a series of photographs of news stories from the press and a television showing subtitled programs that chronicled the events. You can scan a QR code and listen to them at home.

At the end of the corridor on the left, the plastic collected on the beach in a single day is displayed on the floor, a possible cause of cetacean death in the oceans. In a display case, we show a whale's baleen, which the whale uses to filter its food, since the whales studied don't have teeth and feed by filtering their food.

On all the lecterns, we find the textured photograph on the left and an explanatory panel on the right, in Spanish and Braille, with the QR code that leads to the explanation of each photograph in this guide and an NFC that leads to the information for the specific point in Spanish. Simply activate the NFC reader on your mobile phone and place it, near the camera area, where the QR code is indicated (highlighted in tactile-visual relief) for the explanation of that point to appear on the screen.

Exhibition plan

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