A few other sources that might be of interest:
Mitman, Gregg. "Cinematic Nature: Hollywood Technology, Popular Culture,
and the American Museum of Natural History." Isis, Vol. 84, No. 4 (December
1993): 637-661.
Pearson, Jay F. W. "The Development of Dynamic Exhibits in Biology." The
Scientific Monthly, Vol. 41, No. 2. (August, 1935): 148-162.
Reynolds, Ann. "Reproducing Nature: The Museum of Natural History as
Nonsite." October, Vol. 45 (Summer, 1988): 109-127.
Yanni, Carla. "Divine Display or Secular Science: Defining Nature at the
Natural History Museum in London." The Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians, Vol. 55, No. 3 (September 1996): 276-299.
Endnote 83 in the Yanni paper cited above provides some further sources:
"Around the turn of the century, natural history museums began using
dioramas to educate the public about the settings and behavior of animals.
Dioramas or habitat groups--stage sets using plants and stuffed animals
against a naturalistic painted backdrop--originated at the American Museum
of Natural History in New York City. Douglas J. Preston, Dinosaurs in the
Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History (New York,
1986), 81. For a critical reading of the American Museum of Natural
History's African Hall, see Donna Haraway, Primate Visisons: Gender, Race,
and Nature in the World of Modern Science (New York, 1989), 29-31."
Hope this helps, too!
All my best,
--Eric
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> I am involved in a history of science discussion group that, this
> semester, is focused on how people visualize/d science and natural
> history- in particular looking at three dimensional representations of
> anatomy, botany, ob/gyn and then tracing a 20th century switch to more 2
> dimensional or virtual depictions of objects. I am looking for articles
> on natural history museum displays, in particular dioramas, that examine
> them as social constructs but more particularly as a way of seeing
> nature- a way that may well have changed with the advent of other media.
> Does anyone know of any such articles?
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> Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig
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