Throwing it back to 1958, when Museum staff were installing models for the Life on the Forest Floor diorama. A forest floor is a busy place, full of decomposing debris and hungry millipedes, beetles, and weevils. The diorama shows a cross section, at 24 times its actual size! To create this scene, Museum artists studied specimens under a microscope and made models using clay, wax, wire, shellac, and even shoe polish. You can see this diorama today in the Hall of North American Forests.