This habitat diorama was completed in 1942 at the Zoological Museum (now the Bell Museum) at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul. It depicts a pack of grey wolves at Shovel Point near the mouth of the Baptism River on the north shore of Lake Superior in the early spring. The background artist was the well known wildlife artist Francis Lee Jaques and the foreground artist was Walter J. Breckenridge, a naturalist who championed the art of dioramas over the many decades that he served as as preparator, curator and director of the museum. During the era that Wolves Diorama was created, the wolf was vilified as a predator species and the object of an extermination campaign across America. The diorama helped to teach generations of children about the value of the wolf in an ecological context. Like many of the species showcased in dioramas, today these illusionistic spectacles are themselves endangered by removal for a variety of reasons. Fortunately the Wolves Diorama was preserved and transferred to the new museum when it relocated in 2018.