Performance

Hall of Small Mammals

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At AMNH Exhibitions, the Hall of Small Mammals presents dioramas and specimens that map the lives of rodents, bats, rabbits, and other small species across distinct habitats. Built in an era when museums taught ecology through staged scenes, it also records older ideas about nature and display in New York’s cultural institutions. The hall remains a quiet lesson in how much of the city’s scientific storytelling depends on careful craft and selective framing. Its value is archival as much as educational, and the tension shows.