"The Bison and Pronghorn Group, measuring 27' by 16', is one of the largest dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals, which opened to the public on April 9, 1942. Collecting for the diorama began in August 1937, when James L. Clark, then Director of Arts, Preparation, and Installation at the Museum, led an expedition through Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota to gather specimens and make studies of possible background landscapes." --AMNHMagestic and inert, the dioramas at the American Musuem of Natural History in NYC are top notch. Perfect pelts stand confidently in idylic settings while screaming children (do children always scream?) flitter around. The concentration of time and place is quiet like an old technology and intense like a 3D projection.
Photo: Dani Mae, more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/metrodsm/sets/72157603044134758
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It's a good picture. It reminds me of my days working at the Field Museum in Chicago.
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