Videos/Photos: The American Museum of Natural History Restores Animal Dioramas
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Stephen Quinn, the senior project manager in the American Museum of Natural Historyâs exhibition department, works on restoring the wolf diorama, which sets a scene from Gunflint Lake in Minnesota. (© AMNH/R. Mickens)
Taxidermist George Dante touches up one of the Alaskan brown bears in the Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History. The standing bear in this diorama is more than eight feet tall. (© AMNH/D. Finnin)
A preparator works on the Canadian lynx diorama. (© AMNH/R. Mickens)
A jack rabbit in progress of restoration. (© AMNH/R. Mickens)
The Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History features stunningly restored habitat dioramas. The hall, along with the adjacent Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall, will officially reopen to the public on October 27, 2012, Theodore Rooseveltâs 154th birthday. (©AMNHD. Finnin)