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.

Habitat dioramas—the kind with a painted background, plants in the foreground, and an animated animal in mid-action—are generally credited to Carl Akeley, a taxidermist and expeditionist ...

Animals are “good to think with,” the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss famously wrote in his book on totemism. And animals in dioramas clearly can unsettle anyone’s thinking.

Animal dioramas on display at Vanderbilt Sean Murtha, a diorama artist, is restoring the backgrounds of the exhibits in the Stoll Wing of the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport. The exhibits are ...

The diorama, completed in the 1940s, is now one of at least 117 at the museum, and Michael Novacek's favorite display. "I can almost feel the air. It's so perfect.

An Animal Crossing: New Horizons fan has expressed their enthusiasm for the villager named Goldie by creating an adorable diorama utilizing an old Nintendo DS. Goldie was one of the first Animal ...

Announcing plans for one of the galleries in the new Milwaukee Public Museum, officials noted a key current exhibit will make the move to the new building: "Carl Akeley's famous Muskrats diorama ...