Rhinos
A rhino group from the L.A. Natural History Museum.
See the post before last for advice on how to resolve stereo image
Rhinos in Stereo
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Dioramas
L.A. Diorama in Stereo
Reflections
Another one from Los Angeles. The reflections on the glass hover when the stereoscopic view. It is hard to see if the reflected dioramas can also register in 3D, but the right hand one appears that way.
Another L.A. Diorama in 3D
L. A. Diorama
If you view it stereoscopically (check back to some previous 3D images for guidance) the leaves create quite a pleasing depth and the background painting again reveals itself as a surface.
Two more from Los Angeles (in stereo)
LA Museum of Natural History
LA Museum of Natural History
The ostrich group at the top looks so three dimensional in 2D but when seen in 3D (stereoscopically) it looks so flat
More Dioramas in Stereo from Los Angeles
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
A couple more dioramas from Los Angeles
More LA Dioramas in Stereo
Some more stereo views of the dioramas at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. The Walrus group is a popular subject for dioramas. There is a beautiful one at the American Museum of Natural History with a background painting by Francis Lee Jaques. When a taxidermist took me round the dioramas at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen the thing he was most proud of was the representation of excrement on the show and ice. The natural history museum in Stockholm has a similar fascination with faeces. Such polution clearly made much less of an impression on the American surveys, for in both examples the snow is a pure white.
More Dioramas From Los Angeles
A couple more views from the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. The strange effect on the polar bear comes from reflections in the glass front.
More from the Booth Museum
Here is a small selection of scenic elements from the Booth Museum in Brighton. The folded rock is a little crude but most of them are carefully made. The attendant mentioned that all the leaves were made of wax and the snow from crushed glass to get the sparkle. 
Paris Opera Ceiling
The model and sketches above are from the Musée D’Orsay in Paris and show a section of the Paris Opera (Garnier) and proposals for the original ceiling in the auditorium, which is now covered by a 1964 painting by Marc Chagall.
Los Angeles Dioramas
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
A couple more dioramas from the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles.
As before, the difference between viewing the single image and seeing them in 3D is illuminating. Although not as accomplished as the best work at the American Museum of Natural History, there are quite a few good dioramas in LA.
See the previous post for suggestions on how to view in stereo, or use the Jason Robbins method – which I tried yesterday and have to say works really well – of putting your nose right up to the divide between the two images and move back until the image is in focus.
In either method you will see three images – concentrate on the middle one.
