{"id":491,"date":"2009-04-26T21:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T05:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2009-04-26T21:32:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T05:32:14","slug":"diorama-on-anirama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/2009\/04\/26\/travel\/diorama-on-anirama\/","title":{"rendered":"Diorama on Anirama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly my blog is becoming a travelog of cool museums. Last week I was in Pittsburgh and spent an afternoon at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegiemnh.org\/\">Carnegie Museum of Natural History<\/a> &#8211; recommended because of their great dinosaur exhibit. It&#8217;s worth the trip there just for that, but I found myself pulled into the dioramas on North American mammals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a title=\"Wapiti Diorama by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3479172242\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3347\/3479172242_d4b6188244.jpg\" alt=\"Wapiti Diorama\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-text\">Wapiti Diorama<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what attracts me to them &#8211; whether it&#8217;s the dioramas themselves or the flashbacks to being a kid on a school field trip again. Either way, there is something fascinating about being in a dark, quiet museum environment looking at a 3D piece of nature frozen in time outside (and inside) a big picture window. It&#8217;s like getting to be an alien visiting your own planet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a title=\"Bighorn Ram Diorama by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3479171908\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3543\/3479171908_863cdbc8cf.jpg\" alt=\"Bighorn Ram Diorama\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-text\">Bighorn Sheep Diorama<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Stuffed animals with beautifully painted backgrounds &#8211; realistic, but not overly so. The paintings work much better than giant photographs ever could.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a title=\"Dinosaur Bones by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3478362809\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3330\/3478362809_17bb0fd1ed.jpg\" alt=\"Dinosaur Bones\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption-text\">Dinosaur Bones<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The dinosaurs, on the other hand, have their own twist on reality. Clearly, without flesh there is no believing that you&#8217;re observing a snapshot of their world. But the skeletons are in dramatic poses &#8211; you understand much more about them than just their size by seeing them hunting, fighting, swimming or grazing. I worried about this guy &#8211; already dead for millions of years yet still having to evade the toothy beast bearing down on his neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly my blog is becoming a travelog of cool museums. Last week I was in Pittsburgh and spent an afternoon at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History &#8211; recommended because of their great dinosaur exhibit. It&#8217;s worth the trip there just for that, but I found myself pulled into the dioramas on North American mammals.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/newdesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}