Help, The AMNH is Too Awesome!

Holy Diorama!

The American Museum of Natural History has long had a history of teaching through visual means– their famous dioramas were preceded by slide lectures given by museum founder Albert Bickmore to New York City schoolteachers.

Now, as a part of the new online exhibit, Picturing the Museum: Education and Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, an unbelievable archive is available for viewing and download. The images are broken up into four categories: Dioramas, Education, Exhibition, and Exhibition Preparation.
 
This is a deep, deep archive. I’ve spent hours looking through already.

The Exhibition Preparation Images are my favorite. Here are some highlights:

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Rachel Hulin

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Aaron 7-29-2008

Taxidermy Porn: Richard Barnes “Animal Logic” http://www.richardbarnes.net/ So good.

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