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Author : Stephen Christopher Quinn
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 22,71 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Art
ISBN :
Profiles more than forty habitat dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History, describing each one's contents and creation and presenting full-color photos and archival images.
Author : Brian Selznick
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1407166557
Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing.
Author : Sue Dale Tunnicliffe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401794960
This book brings together in a unique perspective aspects of natural history dioramas, their history, construction and rationale, interpretation and educational importance, from a number of different countries, from the west coast of the USA, across Europe to China. It describes the journey of dioramas from their inception through development to visions of their future. A complementary journey is that of visitors and their individual sense making and construction of their understanding from their own starting points, often interacting with others (e.g. teachers, peers, parents) as well as media (e.g. labels). Dioramas have been, hitherto, a rather neglected area of museum exhibits but a renaissance is beginning for them and their educational importance in contributing to people’s understanding of the natural world. This volume showcases how dioramas can reach a wide audience and increase access to biological knowledge.
Author : Lara M. Bjork
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Diorama
ISBN :
This master's project explores the current state and future prospects of wildlife dioramas through a review of wide-ranging perspectives. Drawing on critical analyses (from academic anthropologists and historians), popular accounts (taken from newspapers and general interest magazines), and the writings of museum professionals (including scientists who report their own reactions to dioramas and visitor studies researchers who document the reactions of thousands of visitors to these exhibits), this study assesses theoretical and practical commentaries on wildlife dioramas. With the recognition that both viewpoints-academic and operational-come to play when planning any modification of wildlife dioramas, the product of this project is a reader targeted towards exhibit teams that are renovating or reinterpreting this type of exhibit. The reader includes suggestions for team processes, annotated articles about dioramas, and discussion questions that are designed to give an exhibit team a way to bridge the gaps between reading about dioramas and working to improve the dioramas in their museums. A reader was chosen as the product for this project because the literature review indicated that: the range of literature about dioramas was wide, with theoretical pieces being difficult to understand and visitor studies difficult to obtain; despite their differences in focus, academics and museum professionals have much to offer each other when dioramas are being considered; and the potential of dioramas to communicate to visitors, when their interpretation is given thoughtful consideration, is strong.
Author : Karen Wonders
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Annette Scheersoi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,25 MB
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 303000175X
This book presents the history of natural history dioramas in museums, their building and science learning aspects, as well as current developments and their place in the visitor experience. From the early 1900s, with the passage of time and changes in cultural norms in societies, this genre of exhibits evolved in response to the changes in entertainment, expectations and expressed needs of museum visitors. The challenge has always been to provide meaningful, relevant experiences to visitors, and this is still the aim today. Dioramas are also increasingly valued as learning tools. Contributions in this book specifically focus on their educational potential. In practice, dioramas are used by a wide range of educational practitioners to assist learners in developing and understanding specific concepts, such as climate change, evolution or or conservation issues. In this learning process, dioramas not only contribute to scientific understanding and cultural awareness, but also reconnect wide audiences to the natural world and thereby contribute to the well-being of societies. In the simultaneously published book: “Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes, Socio-cultural Aspects” the editors focus on socio-cultural issues and the potential of using dioramas to engage various audiences with – and in – contemporary debates and big issues, which society and the natural environment are facing.
Author : Annette Scheersoi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 303000208X
This book focuses on socio-cultural issues and the potential of using dioramas in museums to engage various audiences with – and in – contemporary debates and big issues, which society and the natural environment are facing, such as biodiversity loss. From the early 1900s, with the passage of time and changes in cultural norms in societies, this genre of exhibits evolved in response to the changes in entertainment, expectations and expressed needs of museum visitors. The challenge has always been to provide meaningful, relevant experiences to visitors, and this is still the aim today. Dioramas are also increasingly valued as learning tools. Contributions in this book specifically focus on their educational potential. In practice, dioramas are used by a wide range of educational practitioners to assist learners in developing and understanding specific concepts, such as climate change, evolution or or conservation issues. In this learning process, dioramas not only contribute to scientific understanding and cultural awareness, but also reconnect wide audiences to the natural world and thereby contribute to the well-being of societies. In the simultaneously published book: “Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes, Science Educational Aspects" the editors discuss the history of dioramas and their building and science learning aspects, as well as current developments and their place in the visitor experience.
Author : Jay Kirk
Publisher : Picador
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312610739
In this epic account of an extraordinary life lived during remarkable times, Jay Kirk follows the adventures of legendary explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley, who revolutionized taxidermy and environmental conservation and created the famed African Hall at New York's Museum of Natural History. Akeley risked death time and again in the jungles of Africa as he stalked animals for his dioramas and hobnobbed with outsized personalities of the era, such as Theodore Roosevelt and P. T. Barnum. Kingdom Under Glass is "a rollicking biography...an epic adventure...[and] a beguiling novelistic portrait of a man and an era straining to hear the call of the wild" (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199839123
The natural history museum is a place where the line between "high" and "low" culture effectively vanishes--where our awe of nature, our taste for the bizarre, and our thirst for knowledge all blend happily together. But as Stephen Asma shows in Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, there is more going on in these great institutions than just smart fun. Asma takes us on a wide-ranging tour of natural history museums in New York and Chicago, London and Paris, interviewing curators, scientists, and exhibit designers, and providing a wealth of fascinating observations. We learn how the first museums were little more than high-toned side shows, with such garish exhibits as the pickled head of Peter the Great's lover. In contrast, today's museums are hot-beds of serious science, funding major research in such fields as anthropology and archaeology. "Rich in detail, lucid explanation, telling anecdotes, and fascinating characters.... Asma has rendered a fascinating and credible account of how natural history museums are conceived and presented. It's the kind of book that will not only engage a wide and diverse readership, but it should, best of all, send them flocking to see how we look at nature and ourselves in those fabulous legacies of the curiosity cabinet."--The Boston Herald.
Author : Carl Ethan Akeley
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Africa, East
ISBN :
Carl Ethan Akeley was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. In 1921, eager to learn about gorillas to determine if killing them for museum dioramas was justified, Akeley led an expedition to Mt. Mikeno in the Virunga Mountains at the edge of the then Belgian Congo. At that time, gorillas were quite exotic, with very few even in zoos, and collecting such animals for educational museum exhibitions was not uncommon. In the process of "collecting" several mountain gorillas, Akeley's attitude was fundamentally changed and for the remainder of his life he worked for the establishment of a gorilla preserve in the Virungas. This book contains the story of his life, from learning taxidermy to killing a leopard with his hands, his invention of shotcrete to improving motion picture cameras that were used in World War I.--Wikipedia.