Slideshow of antique natural history museum dioramas

10/19/2010

Our pal Ben Cosgrove at LIFE posted a gorgeous slideshow of ye olde natural history museum dioramasSeen above, an 1898 "Beisa Antelope Oryx diorama" by taxidermist Carl Akeley, from the collection of the Field Museum.

"Wild Dioramas Back In The Day" Dioramas "captured" from nature Thomas Doyle's marvelous diorama art Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: La Specola Museum of Natural ..Vienna's creepy natural history museum exhibits in photos Justine Cooper's photos of the American Museum of Natural History ......

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