Thank you - I look forward to this documentary. My father knew Francis Lee Jacques through model railroading, which he was also interested in.
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Gordon Andersson <[email protected]> wrote: > The Bell Museum reopened the weekend of July 13, 2018 in the new building > at Larpenteur and Cleveland in St Paul, N of the UM campus. The Bell was > established by statute in 1872 as the natural history museum for Minnesota > and the ornithologist Thomas Sadler Roberts was its first director. The MOU > has a long history with the Bell also-- more than a mailing address. Jan > Green described the history of the MOU in a recent article in MN Birding. > The MOU annual meeting has been hosted by the Bell for many years and many > of the ornithology professors at UM had offices and labs in the Art Deco > building. It also housed a collection of 1000's of bird specimens from MN > and around the world. That collection is now in the new museum. The new > Bell invited MOU members to a "science partner" event before the public > opening. > > The W Breckenridge & FL Jaques & J Jarosz dioramas in the old museum can > now be seen in the new building in even better condition. The background > paintings were removed in three pieces through a giant hole in the wall and > transported in steel frames to the new building. The huge paintings were > thoroughly cleaned and retouched to original condition. The contents of > each diorama foreground were individually documented with photos and maps, > then carefully cleaned and restored before repositioning in the assembly of > the scene. Likewise every mammal and bird was completely cleaned (and > repainted as necessary) and restored by the team of museum conservators. > (The keenest observers of birds may note a change in the before & after > moose diorama.) > > Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) and the Bell Museum cooperated in > producing a documentary of this entire process--- "Windows to Nature: > Minnesota's Dioramas". It is a fascinating look at the careful > preservation and very detailed restoration of these wonderful displays > about nature, its beauty, and its inhabitants. The video is 26 mins long. > > https://www.tpt.org/windows-to-nature-minnesotas-dioramas/ > > the home page for the new Bell.... sorry for "Goldy" (but maybe he's in a > rotation of images) > https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/ > > GAndersson > St Paul > > > > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
