Repainting the Salmon in the Alaska Brown Bear Diorama

[@chrisspin9452]

My favorite part was the murder tape thing where the fish was laying

[@the_soup2284]

I think you did what the original artist would have wanted. His piece is still displayed and not stuck in a drawer somewhere and I think he would want it to look as realistic as possible since I'm guessing that was the original goal.

[@nedramm3033]

As a carver of fish and birds I found it especially fascinating. I use Tupelo for carving trout or salmon which is more dense than balsa but less dense than basswood. Balsa is so soft that it's amazing that he was able to get all the detail he did. I'm especially happy you preserved the underlying carving.

[@lunhil12]

I remember those dioramas fascinated me as a kid growing up. It's nice to see them preserved so carefully.

[@jaxnean2663]

The amount of care, enthusiasm, dedication and accuracy is astonishing!

[@MarcelTeugels]

In my opinion this was a mistake. I think there were two more acceptable options. 1. keep the fish as it is, maybe with minimal intervention. 2. replace the fish with a new model of a scientifically accurate salmon and archive the original or even display it separately. Anyway this intervention was well executed, eventhough it wouldn't have been my choice.

[@kevincui1631]

Marcel Teugels the diorama here is not only a piece of art, but it’s more a functional object. The way you are describing treat it as a sole art work

[@louisasmiles]

They were respecting the original artists with the respect due, and now its beyond just displaying pieces but treating the whole dioramas as an artifact. Theyre conserving. The same way you'd conserve a michaelangelo or a picasso. The whole exibit is an art piece.

[@dungeontattoofrankfort2190]

100% afree

[@cowmaster7]

At 1:07 i thought he was going to hike the fish like a football

[@livinglife8333]

Those bears are a bit robust to be fresh out of hibernation.

[@sarint5588]

That is wonderful, and everyone did a great job😍 I wish after covid is over, I'll be able to visit the US and this museum 💖

[@noaholson9047]

4:53 It almost looks like the Bears angry and he’s trying to peacefully give it back to the bear

[@phyiire]

That otter was cheated out of more than it's dinner lol, poor thing could use a repaint itself. Or a redraw. Both.

[@briancaldwell1798]

This is awesome but a little extreme for preserving art for most people wouldn't understand something being made from 1920s to 2022 but very true!

[@JesusIsMyFirst]

I love the intro music.

[@IndriidaeNT]

I like bears including polar bears, giant pandas, grizzly bears and Alaska brown bears. I love the Alaska brown bear diorama at the AMNH and I might feature Alaska brown bears, Peruvian bears, polar bears and grizzly bears and giant pandas in my nonfictional and fictional stories and books.

[@Typho0n86]

why didnt yous just get another one, and leave the original in tact

[@tashuntka]

Amazing, truly.... I shall binge thee if therest art more of thine videost.....**cough**

[@shaneh2105]

4:25 She clearly hasn't read the plaque on the diorama she's talking about in the museum she works at =/ And besides that, even if the bear had killed the salmon, how would that make it a murderer? Personally id enjoy everything in the piece but the two bears would definitely stay the focal point

[@joncarroll2040]

She's obviously making a joke because she's an ichthyologist.

[@HomebrandFishfood]

O come here salmon I'm gonna paint you

[@allien7987]

Salmon don’t typically run in the spring...

[@kashyapvyas659]

iam kashyap from India working in state museum Junagadh Gujarat peninsula skilled ,superb ...learned much more

[@dungeontattoofrankfort2190]

Maybe should have done another exact salmon and not touch the original is seems wrong to put a new spin on a beautiful piece. Of art

[@Typho0n86]

its gotta be balsa wood, its gotta be balsa wood, its gotta be balsa wood... :S say it again FFS

[@sebastianoorlandi2505]

Ross D.E. MacPhee IS Michael Keaton.

[@jasonnester9514]

Prolly a coho or chinook def not a sockeye more likly a Chum salmon

[@rr4713]

should have just framed that one and acquired a new one, its just a sockeye

[@louisasmiles]

I guess we know now why you're not a conservatist.

[@elisejansen6854]

I think we should name him. Can we name him?

[@elisejansen6854]

How about Sherwin

[@croatoankennels3504]

Elise Marinus I like sherwin

[@elisejansen6854]

alphawolf THE COUNCIL HAS DECIDED Sherwin it is

[@Sofiarivassculptor]

I want to see the museum again, it's a long trip for me

[@specimenden]

a fairy tale

[@mattrost2574]

I'm sorry, but from a visitor's viewpoint, the differences aren't very noticeable. I appreciate the work of conservation, but I feel this was unnecessary,

[@louisasmiles]

Can you seriously bot see the difference?

[@mattrost2574]

@@louisasmiles - I certainly don't wish to be disrespectful, but seriously, I feel that George Browne's original work should have been conserved without scientific updating. Although there are differences, the average museum visitor does not have access to study the model closely enough to discern or object to inaccuracies. There was historical significance to the original piece. I realize this is a science exhibit rather than a historical one. And I truly admire the restoration. However, I feel this small part of the exhibit could have been restored and preserved without visual alterations.

[@EC2019]

Wrong choice, artistic vandalism, big disrespect. Correct action would be to preserve the original art separately and replace it with a new model made to scientifically accurate specifications.

[@Jack-ek6bs]

É Caoimhe if you watched the video they put a preservative over it so they always make it original again

[@fiteclub1999]

They preserved it like that because the original peice was done by a deceased famous person,and they wanted to keep it as precise as possible for the orinial peice.

[@starandfox601]

@Madalyn Maree how do you know if that salmon isn't accurate? that salmon could of been based on what salmon looked like at it's time. so changing it might of erased what these salmon used to look like before some environmental change caused their colors to change. there have been several cases of accurate animal colors being disregard has inaccurate cause they don't match the modern colors of said animals. cause a lot of scientist don't account for how evolution and natural selection can change something like a animals color.

[@spicy_chickn_nugg5224]

The two thumbs down are the bears cause they took the fish