Sentences with phrase «animal dioramas»

The earlier pieces they selected range from 18th - century Catholic devotional waxworks to scientifically accurate 20th - century animal dioramas (pioneered by Carl Akeley at the Museum of Natural History in New York).

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We have a project at school where the children select an animal and then make a diorama.

Instead one of the Menominee researchers constructed a diorama that included realistic trees, grass and rocks, as well as the original toy animals.

Most dioramas were meant to represent the snapshot in time when the animals were collected.

For these animals the museum built temporary wooden scaffolding into the dioramas to save fragile grasses and plants from being trampled, allowing conservators and taxidermists more freedom to work inside.

Children ages 5 — 9 will discover the dioramas in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals, which offers a snapshot of the plants and animals native to North America.

Anderson's animal dolls could have stepped right out of museum dioramas and into their vintage - store wardrobes, and the mix of stillness and sudden action (from discreetly ruffled fur to a sudden acrobatic leap) is an animated analogue to the deadpan performances of his human casts.

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Have students create dioramas of animals who depend on camouflage for safety.

Join Lauren as she unboxes the first - ever Animal Crossing amiibo diorama and the recently released Summer Isabelle amiibo.

She also created a doll's house in 1969, with a peephole for the diorama of animals.

The deathlike silence of the stuffed animals, encased in glass dioramas, is broken by a group of white pigeons or butterflies invading the museum.

«The stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake,» Sugimoto has said before of the Dioramas photographs.

From museum displays to zoological dioramas, their research depends upon a holistic, contextual treatment of the ways in which animals adapt and react to their surroundings.

Shikama photographed naturalized animals in the dioramas of New York's Natural History Museum, plant specimens in various greenhouses and, more recently, dried seeds.

Sonnier, a talented draftsman, immersed himself in studies of bone relics of Mastodons and other herd animals in the photographic archives and dioramas at the Museum of Natural History before embarking on the series.

In his prior exhibition «Little Creatures» he mined the great natural history dioramas made in the 1920 - 40's, when the animals and environments were already in peril, often from excessive hunting.

He can often be found at the American Museum of Natural History sketching animal anatomy and relishing in the picturesque dioramas.

So Zell entered the American Bar Assn's (ABA's) «Peeps in Law 2014» contest by submitting a miniature scene (called a «diorama») made out of Peeps ® (the animal - shaped marshmallow candies) depicting this argument.