Do science dioramas still have a place in today’s museums?

They absolutely do. Have to give the theater production kids somewhere to go and inspire kids to become the owner of a speakeasy, WWI trench, or paleolithic tribe.

@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social My favorite diorama at the old California Academy of sciences was a modern take - diatoms. Basically microscopic sea life.

When they built the new building they stayed with the historic versions. No more diorama of sea life you can't see with your naked eye.

I get the history. But we have wildlife documentaries and photographs in a way that was not possible 100 years ago. Why not show slices of life that isn't shown in nature documaries? A virus destroying a cell, cellular division, an amoeba stalking its prey. Tardegrades in their natural habitat!

Instead we have dead gazelles.

@ScienceDesk@flipboard.social Duh, yes.