Dioramas as Important Tools in Biological Education

Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale; Scheersoi, Annette

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“…The member newsletter for the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University (2018) describe taxidermy dioramas as "highly accurate depictions of real places in the world." Tunnicliffe and Scheersoi (2009) write "dioramas are just like photographs, a snapshot in time of plants and animals in their natural habitat. "…”

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“… 1 1 Kutner (2015) describes dioramas as “More than just works of art, dioramas are true to science; for decades, artists and scientists went into the field to collect specimens and their surroundings and replicate them exactly as they appeared”. The member newsletter for the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University (2018) describe taxidermy dioramas as “highly accurate depictions of real places in the world.” Tunnicliffe and Scheersoi (2009) write “dioramas are just like photographs, a snapshot in time of plants and animals in their natural habitat.” …”

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Perspective: Is re‐interpretation enough? Dismantling violence in the natural history museum

Heller

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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The taxidermy assemblage “Lion Attacking a Dromedary” (LAD) has been critiqued as a piece of French colonial propaganda, containing unethically sourced human remains, that desensitizes visitors to violence against people of color and lacks value for science education. It has also been on display continuously since 1899 at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and has sentimental and pedagogical value for local community, thus making it complicated to remove. To address its difficult legacy while maintaining its display, LAD has been re‐interpreted multiple times with new descriptive labels. This approach is of limited success, however. Re‐interpretation cannot sufficiently counter the visual narrative of the diorama itself. In addition to the aforementioned critiques, the figures in LAD are posed to tell a harmful “man versus nature” story. LAD points toward a broader narrative bias in natural history, namely an overemphasis on competition and an underemphasis on cooperation. For ethical and effective contemporary science education, and for galvanizing action on climate change and other sustainability and justice crises in the 21st‐century natural history museum, there is an urgent need for radical deconstruction of dioramas like LAD.

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Heller

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…Across the world, natural history museums provide a window into both ancient and recent times (Jardine et al 1996;Graham et al 2004;O'Connell et al 2004;Suarez and Tsutsui 2004;Watanabe 2019). Rather than static representations of the past, many museums have embraced forward-thinking models of education, research, and conservation (Brooks et al 2014;Miyazaki et al 2015;Tenenbaum et al 2015;Tunnicliffe and Scheersoi 2015;Johnston 2016;Pérez-Lachaud and Lachaud 2017;Falk and Dierking 2018). Because of budget restrictions, personnel limits, or other factors, massive collections of specimens behind the exhibition walls often remain incompletely catalogued, but recent research illustrates the value, diversity, and potential of these collections (Schnalke 2011;Guschanski et al 2013;Schneider 2017;Beck 2018;Bratasz et al 2018;Scott et al 2019;Albano et al 2019).…”

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Inventory and Assessment of the Pongo (Linnaeus, 1760) Skeletal Collection Housed at the Yale Peabody Museum

Walls,

Aronsen

2023

Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History

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Museum collections are critical resources for examination of comparative anatomy, developmental biology, and life history hypotheses. Skeletal collections provide insight into spatiotemporal, species, population, and individual variation associated with environmental, social, and epidemiological history. For endangered species such as great apes, these collections provide data nearly impossible to replicate today. In this third in a series of articles reviewing the great ape holdings of the Yale Peabody Museum, we describe the Pongo skeletal collection. Nine catalog numbers in the collection represent nine individuals: two males, five females, and two individuals of indeterminate sex. Evidence of trauma, socioecology, metabolic stressors, infectious disease, and captive management issues are described in detail. The collection exhibits taxonomic diversity as well, with two species present. Our evaluation of the Yale Peabody Museum collection provides a baseline for future research and testable hypotheses for alternate techniques, such as isotopic analyses of dental calculus and noninvasive genetic testing. Museum collections continue to provide new insights into taxonomic and individual variation and environmental context, ultimately allowing for comparisons between modern and historical environmental and behavioral variables.

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Learning Science Through Encounters with Museum Dioramas Themes and Patterns in Students’ Conversations

Piqueras

Hamza

Edvall

2018

Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes

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Dioramas as Important Tools in Biological Education

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Perspective: Is re‐interpretation enough? Dismantling violence in the natural history museum

Perspective: Is re‐interpretation enough? Dismantling violence in the natural history museum

Inventory and Assessment of the Pongo (Linnaeus, 1760) Skeletal Collection Housed at the Yale Peabody Museum

Learning Science Through Encounters with Museum Dioramas Themes and Patterns in Students’ Conversations

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