Press Photo Gallery

  • A sea cucumber being prepared for the Cordell Bank Reef installation. Photo courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California, 2012.
  • A Steller’s jay specimen being prepared using photographs of the actual species for the redwood grove in the Oakland section of the new Gallery of California Natural Sciences. Photo courtesy of the Oakland Museum of California, 2012.
  • One of the dedicated Museum volunteers working on the restoration of redwood tree branches for the redwood platform. Each twig of every branch is adorned with color-matched simulated needles to make sure the platform looks as realistic as possible. Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Matthew Reamer.
  • A volunteer painstakingly re-creates Bay leaves to reconstruct a California Bay Laurel tree. Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Terry Lorant.
  • A fern tendril curls by a table where volunteers painstakingly re-create Bay leaves to reconstruct a California Bay Laurel tree. Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Terry Lorant.
  • Taxidermist Alicia Goode prepares a black-footed albatross for the Cordell Bank section of the Gallery. Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Terry Lorant.
  • Associate Preparator Jaime Lakatos welds armatures for models of marine hydroids in the Cordell Reef diorama. Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Terry Lorant.
  • Associate Preparator Cleo Vilett paints a hydrocoral for the Cordell Bank reef diorama. Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Terry Lorant.
  • Associate Preparator Jaime Lakatos and Associate Preparator Cleo Vilett add foliage to a diorama featuring the camouflaging capabilities of mountain lions in the Oakland Hills scrub. Oakland Museum of California, 2013. Photo: Terry Lorant.
  • The new Gallery of California Natural Sciences reuses almost seventy percent of the over 120 original dioramas from the former gallery, some of which date back to the 1960s and remain amongst the most sophisticated museum displays of California’s biodiversity to this day. Oakland Museum of California, 2013. Photo: Terry Lorant.
  • The skull of a female pronghorn antelope, prepared for installation in the Tehachapis section of the new Gallery of California Natural Sciences. Oakland Museum of California, 2012. Photo: Terry Lorant.

Gallery of California Natural Sciences Press Images (1-11)

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