Gemsbok diorama, Akeley Hall of African Mammals,
American Museum of Natural History, NY.
Water Hole diorama, Akeley Hall of African Mammals.
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.
Quoted from J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, chapter 16.
Alaska Brown Bear diorama, Hall of North American Mammals.
Australian diorama (detail: crimson rosellas), Birds of the World Hall.
All pictures from the AMNH website.
