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National Museums Scotland presents Mammoths of the Ice Age

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National Museum of Scotland presents Mammoths of the Ice Age an exhibition on view 24 January – 20 April 2014.

Illustration showing what Lyuba may have looked like when she was alive. Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski © The Field Museum.
Illustration showing what Lyuba may have looked like when she was alive. Illustration by Velizar Simeonovski © The Field Museum.
Journey back in time hundreds of thousands of years and discover the animals of the ice age at the first UK showing of this interactive, family-friendly exhibition. Joust with mammoth tusks, find out what mammoth fur feels like and touch the replica teeth of a colossal mastodon.

Star of the exhibition is a 40,000-year-old, intact baby mammoth specimen named Lyuba (pronounced Lee-OO-bah) that a Siberian reindeer herder and two of his sons discovered in 2007. Lyuba is, by far, the best-preserved specimen of her kind.

The exhibition, developed by The Field Museum, marks the first displays the baby mammoth and includes not only Lyuba’s preserved body, but CT scans and other scientific evidence that confirms existing theories about her species and new insights. www.nms.ac.uk

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