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.

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 ...

Natural History Museum restores famous diorama hall, celebrating its 100th anniversary. The Natural History Museum’s iconic diorama halls feature over 75 detailed habitats, from arctic tundra to ...

Kimberly Stewart, 43, was proud to share a school project daughter Delilah, 11, worked on with grandfather Rod Stewart, 73.

Sofia Serdiouk, age 11, of Woodbury, wanted to participate in the 2025 Pioneer Press Peeps Diorama Contest, but she faced a quandary. She used items around the house to create her “Peeps ...

The year 2007 gave us two powerful, almost inconceivably advanced manifestations of the human imagination: the iPhone and The Washington Post Peeps diorama contest. Since then, people of all ages ...