0 a model that shows a situation, such as a historical event or animals in their natural environment, in a way that looks real:
Dioramas are three-dimensional.
Rather than being lined up in sequence on museum walls, in the diorama artefacts could be placed in contexts of human use.
The archaeological collections are exhibited with minimal labelling, and without sound, dioramas and film.
The diorama forces us to think and act relationally, and to construct material contexts that consist of more than archaeological things connected to archaeological features.
These dioramas are conventionally empty of human presence, and every species is represented in family groupings or herds, each with their own individual diorama.
These holes in the patio centers clearly correspond to the location where poles are depicted in the ceramic dioramas mentioned earlier.
Later, however, cultural historians judged the diorama an unscientific form of display.
In the extreme case such a focus yields a snapshot of people 'caught in the act', as portrayed in the dioramas of open-air museums.
Yet in truth nothing in the diorama moves or breathes.
