Dioramas
Dioramas
Dioramas enable the accurate portrayal of a wide range of subjects and activities within a historical and social context: from early hill settlements in China, to First World War trenches in France. They can occupy an entire gallery or the confines of a small showcase, but as interpretive devices dioramas are perhaps some of the most successful projects with which we have been involved.
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Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum, Norwich
A third scale diorama depicting the appalling conditions of a front line trench during the Great War.
Desert Visitor Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Foreground modelled trees around a desert oasis. One of seven typical desert habitats illustrated in a forty metre long diorama
Desert Visitor Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Desert sand dunes with mountains beyond. A sense of perspective is created by modelling in diminishing scales eventually merging with the scenically painted canvas backdrop.
Desert Visitor Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Overall view illustrating the devastating effects of mineral extraction, inappropriate agriculture, and tourism on a fragile desert landscape.
Desert Visitor Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Mountain foothills. One of seven modelled desert landscapes forming part of a forty metre long diorama.
Desert Visitor Centre, Sharjah, UAE
Model of dried up river bed. Part of a forty metre long diorama illustrating in intricate detail the seven typical desert habitats found from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman as they would have appeared fifty years ago.
Museum of Natural Sciences, Taiwan
Part of an eight metre wide diorama illustrating aspects of domestic life in a early Chinese hill settlement. Topics covered include house building, food preparation, agriculture, hunting and fishing, and ceramics.
Museum of Natural Sciences, Taiwan
Part of an eight metre wide diorama illustrating aspects of domestic life in a early Chinese hill settlement. Topics covered include house building, food preparation, agriculture, hunting and fishing, and ceramics.
Prehistory Gallery, Museum of London
The Iron Age ritual burial of an aurochs depicted in a quarter-scale diorama.









