Dioramas might seem old - fashioned, but they allow visitors «to walk right up to the glass to check out individual features in a way you would never be able to do in a TV documentary,» says Ross MacPhee,
a mammalogy curator at the museum.
With so many «extinct» creatures reappearing, it is reasonable to wonder if the word has lost its meaning — something Ross MacPhee,
curator of
mammalogy at the American
Museum of Natural History, has been outspoken about.