Generations of museum-goers have stood rapt before a 150-year-old taxidermy diorama that shows a simulated lion attack—and contains a real human skull. At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, ...

The walrus diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, photographed in 2009, includes a "realistic" marine background. Ellen McKnight / Alamy Let’s face it: taxidermy dioramas are ...

For the past seven months on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, inside a building that was once heated by coal, teams of conservation scientists and museum designers in hazmat suits have scrubbed ...

The Carnegie Museum diorama "Lions Attacking A Dromedary" is currently covered and will not be returned to display. Since 1899, the taxidermy diorama most recently titled “Lions Attacking a Dromedary” ...

It would be easy to breeze past the mountain goats on their sliver of vertical cliff in the Hall of North American Wildlife or to step around the black rhino milling about in the hallway. But these ...

Badgers, galahs and egrets are among more than 20 species featured in a dramatic new interior installation at Morgan McGlone’s new CBD venue. The first images are in from Natural History, the ...

For more than a century, the taxidermy diorama “Arab Courier Attacked by Lions” has stood in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Depicting a man on camelback fending off Barbary lions, ...

With a $680,000, 3-year restoration behind it, Mammal Hall – the "Mona Lisa" of the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg – will be celebrated on its 50 th anniversary and rededicated this week.

In a scene from the fifth season of Mad Men, Sally Draper and her friend Glen are framed by a wintry musk-ox museum diorama: Sally: How do they get all these animals? Glen: Teddy Roosevelt killed them ...