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Are Those Animals REAL?: How Museums Prepare Wildlife Exhibits
Are Those Animals REAL How Museums Prepare Wildlife Exhibits
Author: Judy Cutchins, Ginny Johnston
When you visit a natural science museum, do you wonder how the animals in the exhibits can look so alive?  Find out in Are Those Animals REAL? — This behind-the-scenes book shows some of the amazing ways museum artists prepare wildlife for display.  You'll discover how they —
  • bring mammals and birds back to "lif...  more »
  • mold a scaly lizard or a slithery snake
  • re-create a prehistoric beast
  • build a six-foot-long insect
  • create a desert, jungle, forest, or ocean--right inside the museum


Fully updated and filled with forty close-up full-color photographs, the new edition of this critically acclaimed book is a fascinating introduction to an intriguing but little-known part of the museum world.  It is must reading if you've ever asked, "Are those animals real?"
ISBN-13: 9780688128548
ISBN-10: 0688128548
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 40
Edition: Rev Upd
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Publisher: Morrow Junior Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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