The mind has a difficult time wrapping itself around the notion that one day humankind will be extinct. Armageddon itself is easy to imagine, whether by nuclear fire, worldwide pandemics, zombie ...
Mammal Hall, the “Mona Lisa” of the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, is nearing completion of a $680,000 conservation project to bring new life to the perennial favorite among visitors. A ...
With a $680,000, 3-year restoration behind it, Mammal Hall – the "Mona Lisa" of the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg – will be celebrated on its 50 th anniversary and rededicated this week.
“Absolutely magnificent,” eighth grader Michael Ortiz marveled at a representation of the Connecticut shoreline with its marshes, night herons snagging fish, and dozens of other labeled flora and ...
As Sheryl Crow snarls her way through “If It Makes You Happy,” the music video for one of her most popular songs shows her trapped inside an L.A. County Museum of Natural History diorama of a simple ...
The Civic Museum of Natural History in Milan, which I visited last month, contains a magnificent collection of dioramas. The museum was badly damaged during WWII, so the oldest of them dates back no ...
A bear inside a diorama at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY) One of the dioramas at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia. (Paige ...
Caterina De Julianis, “Santa Maria Maddalena in adorazione della croce” (1717), polychrome wax, painted paper, glass, tempera on paper, and other materials, 53.7 x 59 cm (photo by Artefotografica, ...
Look closely at this three-dimensional scene, featuring a pair of exuberant dancers. "You've been enslaved for 250 years, and now you're free, and this is jubilation and joy," said professor Jontyle ...
Over breakfast one morning almost a year ago, Steve Owen asked his brother-in-law, Ken MacLeod, a builder of model tanks and trains, if he would be interested in a project for the Arkansas Inland ...
The Civic Museum of Natural History in Milan, which I visited last month, contains a magnificent collection of dioramas. The museum was badly damaged during WWII, so the oldest of them dates back no ...
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