{"id":418039,"date":"2026-08-27T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418039\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:52:09","slug":"historic-wildlife-dioramas-of-dallas-museum-of-natural-history-in-fair-park-are-back-on-view-until-at-least-sept-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418039\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic wildlife dioramas of Dallas Museum of Natural History in Fair Park are back on view until at least Sept. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He handled a variety of roles, but it became clear that he was best at building the exhibits, specifically, \u201ctaking your scientific specimen and using some artistic sense about how you display it.\u201d The field work required for the dioramas \u2014 collecting materials, making molds, camping out on location \u2014 was Davis\u2019s favorite part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw it in your head. You knew what you were aiming for, and it was a matter of collecting everything that you needed to make that thing new,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Davis thought the museum would continue the dioramas forever, but Louis F. Gorr, museum director from 1979 to 1986, turned toward paleontology and archaeology instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He handled a variety of roles, but it became clear that he was best at building the exhibits,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[138468,102,104,145666,103,5253,145667,7466,145668],"class_list":["post-418039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-cc-young-senior-living","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-museum-of-natural-history","tag-dallas-news","tag-fair-park","tag-fair-park-visitor-center","tag-perot-museum-of-nature-and-science","tag-walt-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}