Conservators work to preserve 120-year-old panorama at KU Natural History Museum

LJWorld.com: As they looked through the windows of the Kansas University Natural History Museum's panorama one day this week, several kids asked their parents the same question: "Why are those people in there?"
Behind the glass, next to frozen-in-time grizzly bears, bison and moose, conservators in hazmat suits methodically brushed and vacuumed decades of dust off the 120-year-old, 8,000-square-foot exhibit. They were there not only to clean the panorama but to assess its condition; later, they will provide recommendations on how best to renovate it.