Endangered Habitats: When Museum Dioramas Face Extinction
Natural history museums were never meant to be fast experiences. They were designed as places where visitors could slow down — where understanding came not from spectacle, but from sustained looking. Long before digital interactives or immersive projections, museums relied on carefully constructed environments to teach the public about ecosystems, extinction, and responsibility. Among the most ambitious of these environments were habitat dioramas . Built through close collaboration between...