MOUNTAIN PINE -- A popular maxim holds the past is irretrievable, a flicker of images and feelings that ripple through the consciousness and defy reproduction in the present. It's a sentiment lost ...

Then he re-created the structures with balsa wood. Mason got about 10,000 pewter soldiers for the diorama, and he and others hand-painted each one.

After 364 days of antici-Peep-tion, The Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama contest has returned with a sweet, sugary bang. This year’s participants drove the challenge to previously ...

Generations of museum-goers have stood rapt before a 150-year-old taxidermy diorama that shows a simulated lion attack—and contains a real human skull. At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History ...