To the extent that a three-dimensional still-life can be exciting, it is an exciting moment in museum-dom. It suggests that dioramas themselves needn't be relegated to back hallways or even disassembled in an age of up-close nature video. It shows that the skills to make them still exist, even if sourcing, say, a dead tiger as the centerpiece might be a lot more problematic now than it was 100 years ago. And it proves the public likes dioramas enough that it is willing to pay for them, or for at least for one of them.