We have portraits of people in our galleries. But what if you’re a natural science museum? How do you portray a dinosaur? We talk with <a href="https://www.si.edu/about/bios/kirk-johnson">Kirk Johnson</a>, Sant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, about the ways our portrayals of dinosaurs have evolved, from sluggish and lizard-like to warm-blooded, colorful and spry. Then <a href="https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/matthew-carrano">Matthew Carrano</a>, curator of dinosauria, explains how the museum put T. rex into a striking new pose. The idea, he says, was to convey how cool dinosaurs were, but also make them relatable and relevant.We also tie in a couple portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's collection: an image of the first person to describe an American dinosaur, and a photograph of the first person to give them the Hollywood treatment.See the portraits we discussed:<a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.82.67?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Djoseph%252BLeidy">Joseph Leidy, by Frederick Gutekunst</a><a href="https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2002.TC5.1?destination=edan-search/default_search%3Fedan_local%3D1%26edan_q%3Dsteven%252Bspielberg">Steven Spielberg, by Gregory Heisler</a><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2021/09/07/what-weve-discovered-about-tyrant-lizard-king-nations-t-rex-was-unearthed/">The Nation's T. rex</a>, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural HistoryAlso recommended:<a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2020/02/10/book-review-visions-of-lost-worlds-the-paleoart-of-jay-matternes/">Visions of Lost Worlds: The Paleoart of Jay Matternes</a>, by Matthew T. Carrano and Kirk R. Johnson

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