Diorama

This article is about the display. For other uses, see Diorama (disambiguation).
Near life-size diorama of the Monpa people at the Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India
The Exhibition Lab's mountain gorilla diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

A diorama is a replica of a scene, typically a three-dimensional model either full-sized or miniature. Sometimes it is enclosed in a glass showcase for a museum. Dioramas are often built by hobbyists as part of related hobbies such as military vehicle modeling, miniature figure modeling, or aircraft modeling.[citation needed]

In the United States around 1950 and onward, natural history dioramas in museums became less fashionable, leading to many being removed, dismantled or destroyed.[1]

  1. ^ Tunnicliffe & Scheersoi 2014, p. 8.