Imagine a whole world in a bottle! This little terrarium is teaming with the ecosystem of the rainforest. A great way to learn how animals interact with each other and their environment. Now you can travel to the coast of the arctic right on your wall!
Imagine a whole world in a bottle! This little terrarium is teaming with the ecosystem of the rainforest. A great way to learn how animals interact with each other and their environment. Now you can travel to the coast of the arctic right on your wall!
Throwing it back to 1958, when Museum staff were installing models for the Life on the Forest Floor diorama. A forest floor is a busy place, full of decomposing debris and hungry millipedes, beetles, and weevils. The diorama shows a cross section, at 24 times its actual size! To create this scene, Museum artists studied specimens under a microscope and made models using clay, wax, wire, shellac, and even shoe polish. You can see this diorama today in the Hall of North American Forests.
