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- Karen Wonders, Habitat Dioramas. Illusions of Wilderness in Museums of Natural History. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1993
- Norman M. Klein, The Vatican to Vegas: a history of special effects, 2004, The New Press
- Patrick Mauries, Cabinets of Curiosities, 2002, Thames & Hudson
- Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works, 1997, W. W. Norton & Company
- David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art, 2002, Thames & Hudson
- David Lewis-Williams & David Pearce, Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods, 2005, Thames & Hudson
- Steven Mithen, The Prehistory of the Mind: the cognitive origins of art, religion and science, 2002, Thames & Hudson
- Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, L.J.M. Daguerre, The History of The Diorama and the Daguerreotype, 1968, Dover Publications
- De Uitvinding van het Landschap: van Patinir tot Rubens, catalogus, 2004, KMSKA, Antwerpen
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972, Giulio Einaudi
- Georges Perec, Life, a User’s Manual, 1978, Hachette
- Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and other stories: The Garden of the Forking Paths, 1949, Editorial Losada
- Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow, 1998, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Dioramas, exhibition catalogue Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017, Flammarion
- Umberto Eco, De geschiedenis van imaginaire landen en plaatsen, 2013, Bert Bakker
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, Het wilde denken, 1968, Meulenhoff
- Ernst Gombrich, Art and Illusion. A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial representation, 1960, Phaidon
- Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction, 2009, Harvard University Press
- Richard G. Klein, The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins, 1998, University of Chicago Press
- New Realities, Exhibition Catalogue, 2017, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, 1840-1900, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition catalogue, 2008, Yale University Press
- Annette Scheersoi, Sue Dale Tunnicliffe, Natural History Dioramas – Traditional Exhibits for Current Educational Themes, 2018, Springer International Publishing
- Erkki Huhtamo, Illusions in Motion, 2012, The MIT Press
Articles
- Jan Verpooten and Yannick Joye, Evolutionary interactions between human biology and architecture: Insights from signaling theory and a cross-species comparative approach, Csibra G, Richerson P, Pléh C (eds) Naturalistic Approaches to Culture. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, pp 201 – 221, 2014
- Christophe Van Gerrewey, De rust van de werkelijkheid, Diorama’s en dia’s, De Witte Raaf, Editie 189 september-oktober 2017
- Marianne Foss Mortensen, Designing immersion exhibits as border-crossing environments, Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2010, 323 336
- Lisa Goulet, Domesticating Wilderness: How Nature and Culture Converge in the Museum Space, pre-publication thesis researchgate, 2018
Online
- http://fuckyeahdioramas.tumblr.com/
- http://www.poeziemuseum.amsterdam/, augmented reality app
- Museum of Natural History, New York
- Biologiska Museet, Skansen, Stockholm
- Digital diorama at Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus
- Bry Sur Marne, Daguerre’s diorama
- Grigore Antipa, Bucharest Natural History Museum
- De Efteling, Spookslot en andere animatronics dioramas
- Instant Terra, landschaps-software
- Terragen, landschaps-software
- World Machine, landschaps-software
- World Creator, landschaps-software
- Sketchfab, online database of 3D models
- The art and science of museum dioramas, TED
- Diorama dilemma: The art and science of museum displays, WHYY.org
Artists