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Alaska Moose Diorama -
Detail, Alaska Moose Diorama -
Alaska Moose (Diorama) The Alaska Moose diorama, located on the first floor of the American Museum of Natural History in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals, was completed in 1940 and restored during the Hall’s restoration of 2011-2012. The scene depicts two fighting Alaska moose battling one another over a female during the autumn mating season on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. The bog scene is typical of vast areas within the boreal forest. Stunted black spruce are depicted in the foreground. In the background, aspen trees are portrayed in fall color and indicate areas where fire has occurred. The background painter was Carl Rungius; The foreground artist was G. Frederick Mason (with James Carmel assisting); the taxidermist was Robert Rockwell. -
Grizzly Bear, Plate X from Photographic Album of the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park -
School group at Tyrannosaurus rex, Dinosaur Hall, circa 1966 -
Siberian Tiger Group, male, North Asiatic Hall [1935-1964] -
Pteranodon skeleton, shown with man for scale, Hall of Late Dinosaurs [1940-1960] -
Detail of cell model, Biology of Man Hall, 1964 -
Girls from P.S. 94, sketching items on display in the Southwest Indian Hall, 1916 -
Little girl at Mountain Goat Group, Hall of North American Mammals, April, 1922 -
Hayden Planetarium, exterior, 1936 -
Lycaenops and Jonkeria mural, Brontosaurus Hall [1941-1954] -
Aspidonia, schildtiere Lithograph, Tafel 47, Limulus from Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur. - Indian Child in Papoose, British Columbia, original image by Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. Ltd. Montreal and Toronto, printed in Great Britain, circa 1909