Artifice marks how dioramas are represented and understood. In the 1970s, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto became famous for his “Dioramas” series, photographs of habitat groups, including some ...

Long-time citizens tell their own stories of Torrington, depicted in tableau by the dioramas preserving them for the ages. A layer cake of comedy, pathos, irony, and empathy, World Famous Gopher ...

The first challenge: stuffed rodents. Laural Kurta, director of the World Famous Gopher Hole Museum, is pictured beside one of its newest dioramas, a gopher dressed as a wildland firefighter.