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.

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.

In 2003, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., removed its scenic dioramas in favor of a mammal hall that emphasizes evolution with animals displayed against ...

We had a fourth diorama hall, that was called the Exotic Mammal Hall, that had been closed for more than 30 years. The biggest concern was animals were being wiped out. They're disappearing at a ...

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 ...