On Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 8:56 AM Pat Norton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
