[Nhcoll-l] natural history dioramas

[Adam Rountrey]

Hi Lennart,
You might be interested in our somewhat unusual presentation of dioramas.
We had a set of six dioramas made by George Marchand in the 1950s and 1960s
in our previous museum building.  During the move to a new facility,
exhibit managers made a decision to leave several of these out of the
redesigned museum displays.  To preserve them and make them available for
future educational use, we had a team of students use photogrammetry to
document the dioramas as they were, and we recently put up digital 3D
versions of the dioramas at:

https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/life-through-the-ages-dioramas/

I think the Ordovician and Devonian are particularly beautiful.

-Adam

Adam N. Rountrey, Ph.D.
Research Museum Collection Manager and 3D Specialist
University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
T: +1 734 936 1385
3D Online Repository (UMORF) <https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/>







On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 7:36 AM Lennart Lennuk <
Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee> wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
>
> I am assembling an example photos of natural history dioramas. I am very
> interested in new ways that dioramas are used and presented in last years.
>
> I found the book „Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for
> Current Educational Themes“ really helpful but some years have gone by and
> I wonder
>
> what has happened after the book was published.
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>
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> Please, if you have any examples that are worth sharing, contact me. I am
> also very happy about contacts of persons who are curating dioramas.
>
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> The topics I focus on dioramas:
>
> dioramas that are addressing environmental issues
>
> examples when dioramas are used as discussion points for different topics
> (photos could be really good of such examples, people talking in front of
> dioramas etc).
>
> Innovational dioramas that are more open and giving visitors to watch
> those from different angles or in different ways.
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>
>
> Best regards!
>
> Lennart Lennuk
>
> Head of collections
>
> Estonian Museum of Natural History
>
> +372 6603404, 56569916
>
>
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