One of them is to set up the diorama in a way that people can view it if they want to or easily avoid it. “We don’t want to be prescriptive and tell people how they ought to see this.

The original diorama makers were determined to preserve nature to improve us, even if they had to kill animals and put them behind glass to do it. It's enough to make you think.

I’d still have to bum rides off of people.” Animals are “good to think with,” the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss famously wrote in his book on totemism. And animals in dioramas ...

The popular diorama was covered up for the first time in 120 years on June 29, 2020, in the wake of demonstrations related to systemic racism and the police killings of Black people.

From a sugary Oscars selfie to Peeps toughing out the polar vortex, this year saw over 700 delicious dioramas. Out of these entries, the Post gave top honors to 5 of the super-sweet sculptures.

When the St. Paul Pioneer Press started the first newspaper-sponsored Peeps Diorama contest back in 2004, we had no idea that we would be creating a sticky, squishy, tooth-rotting monster that has ...

Karen Collins said she was hoping to find funds to permanently house all of the dioramas that make up the African American Miniature Museum in a public location where everyone can enjoy it.

The diorama is one of four in the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall, unveiled shortly after the president’s death in 1919. The others honor the president’s life and conservation efforts.

It’s really about bringing the diorama around the visitor and bringing the visitor into the diorama,” Harvey says. Along with new technology and updating the exhibit halls themselves, Harvey hopes ...

You've probably never heard of painter Fred F. Scherer. If you've ever been to the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, though, you may have seen his paintings — probably ...

"There are people who look at [dioramas] as a dead, boring zoo, and it hurts when they say that," she says. "But I have to give it to them. The way they're currently displayed, they do not speak ...