Notater og sitater, 2.sept.

American Museum of Natural History (2013)

 The habitat diorama express man's effort to classify, define and generally comprehend the natural world by means of an ecological model. (9)

Some of the major controversies hidden in the diorama concept are: taxonomic versus ecologic understanding; art versus science; popular education versus scientific documentation; culturally biased perception versus "objectivity"; and "omni-max" versus diorama. (9)

Habitat Dioramas - Illusions of Wilderness in Museums of NAtural History, by Karen Wonders.

London Natural History Museum (2011)

As historians of science, we can help to arouse the Sleeping Beauty of many a natural history museum by historicizing, and this means: by re-humanizing it. (239)

Looking at an object of nature, I noticed, as in a distant mirror, that nature is but part of our human history. (240)

"Re-Humanizing a sleeping Beauty - A Historians Vision of Natural History Collections",

 by Christoph Meinel (From Private to Public).

Turin Natural History Museum (2013)

 Naturama er formidler av natur, men er ikke selv natur. Det er iscenesættelse. Det er forførelse. Det er magi. (10)

Målet er at give museets gæster et overvældende indtryk af naturens skønhed og via denne fascination og viden at skabe forståelse for vores forunderlige og mangfoldige verden. (15)

Naturama - moderne naturhistorie (informasjonshefte om Naturama i Svendborg)