SOTE Lecture: Bringing "Rochester in 1838" Back to Life

Bringing "Rochester in 1838" Back to Life
Aaron Delehanty, RMSC Staff Artist

Wednesday, Oct. 18: 7:30pm

As museums around the nation deal with the issue of what to do with their aging dioramas, the RMSC made the decision to restore its diorama "Rochester in 1838." Part of the museum since 1946, this diorama is one that many Rochesterians have grown up with and has become an icon of the museum. The restoration process took a team of dedicated staff over a year to realize. This talk with staff artist and TEDxFlourCity speaker Aaron Delehanty will take you through the ins and outs of what it took to bring this work of art and science back to life. After much hard work, the diorama is once agin the best piece of living history there is of this time period and one which the next generation can now grow up with, gaze at with wonder and teleport to the frontier life of Rochester, the "Young Lion of the West."

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