SCQ: I think you would have to say the mountain gorilla diorama, perhaps the whole African family. It’s artistically and historically, I think, the greatest habitat diorama in the world. It’s such an ...

In the parlor of the Quinn family habitat in Ridgefield Park, N.J. -- where Quinns have lived since 1921 in a Craftsman-style house built by Quinn's grandfather, and where Quinn, his wife, Linda ...

Habitat dioramas—the kind with a painted background, plants in the foreground, and an animated animal in mid-action—are generally credited to Carl Akeley, a taxidermist and expeditionist ...

We have done two of these projects before with our daughters. My husband and I were amazed at our son’s total lack of caring about making a diorama. With our girls, they were Johnny-on-the-Spot.