QTVR Panorama: inside the museum of lost creatures.

Xeni Jardin 8:40 am Fri May 2, 2003

Australian QTVR aficionado and photographer Peter Murphy writes:

Hi Xeni — last week I had the rare opportunity to shoot a panorama inside a museum diorama animal display filled with stuffed animals large and small. These kinds of displays are becoming increasingly appreciated as valuable records of disappearing species. The tapir visible at the back of the elephant -for example – is now an ~~extinct~~ endangered species. And BTW, there was an interesting NYTimes article on these kinds of displays recently —
"Rescuing the diorama from the fate of the dodo".

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