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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are a series of twenty intricately designed dollhouse-style dioramas created by Frances Glessner Lee (1878–1962), a pioneer in forensic science. [1][2] Glessner Lee used her inheritance to establish a department of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1936, and donated the first of the Nutshell ...
Staffordshire figure. Staffordshire figures are a type of popular pottery figurine made in England from the 18th century onward. Many Staffordshire figures made from 1740 to 1900 were produced by small potteries and makers' marks are generally absent. Most Victorian figures (1837 to 1900) were designed to stand on a shelf or mantlepiece and are ...
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]
Marchand began working as a diorama artist at the New York State Museum. [1] His work on the museum's Iroquois dioramas, dedicated in 1918, earned him recognition. [2] In 1925, Marchand and his family moved to Buffalo, New York, where he and his sons Paul and George were to construct dioramas for the Buffalo Museum of Science.
A forced perspective diorama in the Hall of Asian Peoples made by George F. Campbell M.R.I.N.A. The AMNH Exhibitions Lab or AMNH Department of Exhibition is an interdisciplinary art and research team at the American Museum of Natural History that designs and produces museum installations, computer programs and film. Founded in 1869, the lab has ...
The World Museum was a full-page illustrated feature in some American Sunday newspapers, starting on May 9, 1937 until January 30, 1938. [1] Devised and drawn by Holling Clancy Holling (1900–1973), it was also known as The World Museum Dioramas. [2] The Evening Star in Washington and the Baltimore American both published the dioramas.
A bottle of Maker's Mark Cellar Aged 2024 bourbon at the Maker's Mark Distillery in Loretto, Kentucky. September 6, 2024. For a distillery long known for sticking to 6-year-old recipes, releasing ...
Mary Stella Edwards donated a collection of her own and Ackland's work, dating from 1913 and 1965, to Burton Art Gallery and Museum in Bideford. [4] Other works by Ackland and Edwards are held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum of London, Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales and Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, Westmorland.