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Tagged National Diorama Month

Buckle up for the return of Diorama-Rama, March 26 at the Walker’s Point Anodyne

Matt Wild
March 18, 2019
Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world's first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony diorama f...

Milwaukee’s National Diorama Month goes big by going small

Matt Wild
March 15, 2016
//Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world's first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony di...
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