<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Lennart,</div><div>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: <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/life-through-the-ages-dioramas/">https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/life-through-the-ages-dioramas/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I think the Ordovician and Devonian are particularly beautiful.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Adam</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Adam N. Rountrey, Ph.D.</font></div><div>Research Museum Collection Manager and 3D Specialist<br></div><div>University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology</div><div><span><div>T: +1 734 936 1385</div></span></div><a href="https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/" target="_blank">3D Online Repository (UMORF)</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 7:36 AM Lennart Lennuk <<a href="mailto:Lennart.Lennuk@loodusmuuseum.ee">Lennart.Lennuk@loodusmuuseum.ee</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hi!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I found the book „Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes“ really helpful but some years have gone by and I wonder<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">what has happened after the book was published.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The topics I focus on dioramas:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">dioramas that are addressing environmental issues<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">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).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Innovational dioramas that are more open and giving visitors to watch those from different angles or in different ways.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Best regards!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Lennart Lennuk<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Head of collections<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Estonian Museum of Natural History<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">+372 6603404, 56569916<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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