As I stood there, just feet away from the animals and the adjacent painted walls, I had a hard time finding the frontier between and fiction and reality.
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Why that unassuming museum art — which you'll find behind taxidermic bison and birds — deserves a closer look.
Reality or illusion: The SCHIRN presents a major exhibition dedicated to the idea of staged vision.
The following article is from Uncle John’s Factastic Bathroom Reader.While researching an article on taxidermy recently, we discovered Carl Akeley, a man widely considered to be a pioneer in the field because of his artistic approach to the craft. But that’s not all Akeley did: he also changed the way museums are designed, innovated nature photography, and founded Africa’s first nature preserve. And it all started the day he killed a leopard with his bare hands. THINK FAST! Carl Akeley ...
Presenting food from a wide variety of angles—cultural, political and scientific—this traveling exhibition effectively gives physical form to complicated stories, making abstract ideas about food both compelling and visually appealing.
Though mostly known for his trompe l’oeil lettering, Portuguese street artist Odeith has recently been adding larger-than-life insects to his repertoire. Many of the wall-based works are placed in corners and require careful planning to achieve an anamorphic effect. You can see more from Odeith on Instagram. More
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University of Minnesota
The paintings once dazzled and enlightened mid-century planetarium-goers.
Behind the Scenes AMNH tour, Anthropology department -- Latin America
Dire wolf, canine that existed during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago). It is probably the most common mammal to be found preserved in the La Brea Tar Pits in southern California. It was larger and had a more massive skull, a smaller brain, and lighter limbs compared with modern wolves.
Source: Research Library, American Museum of Natural History James Perry Wilson (above) painting the background for Western Pine Forest G...
In 2012, Matt and I spent a week in New York, mostly working at the AMNH on “Apatosaurus” minimus and a few other specimens that caught our eye. But we were able to spend a day at the Y…
American Museum of Natural History
The food on the shelves of your local store may have traveled across an ocean to reach you—or just across the road.
The American Museum of Natural History Museum, along with WNET, has launched an online web series to show that there's more to their dioramas than dead animals.
