This exhibition is considered one of the most important in the world on the ice ages for completeness, quantity and quality of finds; born after careful research and collaboration with some of the greatest experts on the subject, it boasts dozens of faithful life-size reconstructions of extinct animals: from the great Mammoth primigenius (3 meters and 40 centimeters tall), present with a dynamic family nucleus composed of three adults and a cub of a few months; followed by the woolly rhinoceros, the cave bear, the aurochs, the bush-antlered deer, the saber-toothed tiger, the cave lion, the short-faced hyena. These are just some of the extinct mammals available, some of them having lived up to only 25,000 - 30,000 years ago, and always present in the imagination of adults and children.
The exhibition also features many life-size reconstructions of hominids: we are referring to Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, with sets that portray them in moments of daily life.
Hominids who coexisted and interacted in competition with each other for millennia. These predecessors of ours also lived for a long time in Italy, as in many other European states, the Neanderthals then had the worst of it, becoming extinct in ways that are still not entirely clear today.
Among the many finds in the exhibition, some are considered to be of great scientific importance and suggestiveness: Lyuba, which through its faithful reconstruction, portrays the female mammoth cub deceased c. 41,800 years ago at the age of 30-35 days, reconstructed in the exact position and attitude in which it was found in 2007 in Russia, it is believed to have weighed about 50 kg and measured 85 cm in height.
This mummy emerged from the ice due to extraordinary thaws and is considered the best mammoth mummy in the world in terms of conservation, surpassing in quality Dima, another small male mammoth discovered in May 1977 in the Arctic peninsula of Yamal, in Siberia, also present with a superb - faithful reconstruction. The exhibition is completed by an extraordinary original skeleton of a woolly mammoth, an adult found in Russia in 2004 in the Tyumen region. The skeleton has a support structure that is absolutely innovative in terms of the scenographic - visual effect, its overall weight when assembled is about 6 quintals, it is 3.20 m high and about 8.00 m long.
Based on the availability of covered spaces, the exhibition can be designed and set up according to the needs of the requesting institutions, proving to be particularly functional for museum structures and trade fair institutions.
This international exhibition, considered to be of absolute educational and scientific importance, has been hosted in important countries and structures in recent years, some of which are listed below:
- Italy, Naples, City of Science
- Germany, North Sea, Garding;
- Italy, Civic Museum of Natural History of Jesolo, Venice;
- Italy, Vicenza Fair Authority;
- Italy, Riva del Garda Fierecongressi, Trento;
- Austria, Mistelbach;
- China, Hong Kong;
- Netherlands, Amsterdam Expo;
- Finland, Tampere
- Belgium, Ramioul
- Italy, Marie Curie Scientific High School
- Italy, Italian Exhibition Vicenza
- Italy, Palace of the Popes, Viterbo
ITEMS ON DISPLAY (55)
ORIGINAL COMPLETE SKELETON OF WOOLLY MAMMOTH
Mammoth primigenius
Height: 3.50 m; Width: 3.00 m; Length: 8.50 m
ADULT MALE WOOLLY MAMMOTH
Mammoth primates
Height: 4.00 m; Width: 2.00 m; Length: 9.50 m
ADULT FEMALE WOOLLY MAMMOTH
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Height: 3.30 m; Width: 2.20 m; Length: 8.00 m
SUB-ADULT WOOLLY MAMMOTH
Mammoth primigenius
Height: 2.50 m; Width: 1.00 m; Length: 5.00 m
WOOLLY MAMMOTH PUPPY
Mammoth primigenius
Height: 1.50 m; Width: 0.85 m; Length: 1.60 m
DIMA - MAMMOTH BABY FOUND IN SIBERIA IN 1977
Mammoth primates
The original is in the St. Petersburg Museum. He died 44,000 years ago and weighed 110 kg.
Height: 1.00 m; Width: 0.30 m; Length: 1.30 m
LYUBA - BABY WOOLLY MAMMOTH FOUND IN MAY 2007 IN RUSSIA
Mammoth primogenius
Height: 1.00 m; Width: 0.30 m; Length: 1.30 m
REPRODUCTION OF ADULT MAMMOTH SKULL WITH TUSKS
Mammoth primigenius
Height: 2.00 m; Width: 1.75 m; Length: 2.00 m
PARTIAL LOWER PART OF WOOLLY MAMMOTH JAW (FOSSIL)
Mammoth primigenius
Height: 20 cm; Width: 52 cm; Length: 31 cm
FOSSIL MAMMOTH TEETH
Mammoth primates
FOSSIL MAMMOTH TEETH (2)
Mammoth primogenius
FOSSIL MAMMOTH TEETH (3)
Mammoth primigenius
MAMMOTH TEETH RECONSTRUCTION
Mammoth primigenius
ADULT WOOLLY RHINOCEROS
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Height: 1.70 m; Width: 1.00 m; Length: 3.60 m
WOOLLY RHINOCEROS BABY
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Height: 0.70 m; Width: 0.40 m; Length: 1.05 m
PARTIAL UPPER PART OF WOOLLY RHINOCEROS SKULL (FOSSIL)
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Height: 33 cm; Width: 20 cm; Length: 70 cm
COMPLETE SKULL RECONSTRUCTION OF A WOOLLY RHINOCEROS
Coelodonta antiquitatis
Height: 50 cm; Width: 37 cm; Length: 80 cm
CAVE BEAR
Spelaeus bear
Height: 3.00 m; Width: 0.80 m; Length: 1.10 m
UPPER PART OF CAVE BEAR SKULL
Spelaeus bear
RECONSTRUCTION OF A COMPLETE CAVE BEAR SKULL
Spelaeus bear
Height: 23 cm; Width: 27 cm; Length: 49 cm
RECONSTRUCTION OF UPPER PART OF CAVE BEAR SKULL
Spelaeus bear
Height: 25 cm; Width: 32 cm; Length: 53 cm
FOSSIL FORELIMB OF A CAVE BEAR
Spelaeus bear
PARTIAL UPPER PART OF STEPPE BISON SKULL (FOSSIL) (1)
Bison Priscus
Height: 19 cm; Width: 50 cm; Length: 29 cm
PARTIAL UPPER PART OF STEPPE BISON SKULL (FOSSIL) (2)
Bison Priscus
INCOMPLETE PART OF THE LOWER JAW OF THE STEPPE BISON (FOSSIL)
Bison Priscus
Height: 12 cm; Length: 18 cm
FOSSIL PARTS OF STEPPE BISON SKELETON
Bison Priscus
PARTIAL UPPER PART OF EUROPEAN BISON SKULL (FOSSIL)
Bison bonasus
Height: 27 cm; Width: 73 cm; Length: 41 cm
SHORT-FACED HYENA
Pachycrocuta brevirostris
Height: 1.00 m; Width: 0.40 m; Length: 1.65 m
EUROPEAN DEER
Cervus elaphus
Taxidermy preparation
Height: 2.20 m; Length: 2.10 m
DIORAMA FLYING AUKES
Pinguinus impennis , extinct in 1852
Height: 1.00 m; Width: 1.00 m; Length: 2.00 m
CAVE LION
Panthera leo spelaea
Height: 1.20 m; Width: 0.55 m; Length: 2.00 m
SABER-TOOTHED TIGER
Smilodon fatalis
Height: 1.10 m; Width: 0.70 m; Length: 1.85 m
BUSH-ANTLER DEER
Eucladoceros skulls
Height: 3.00 m; Width: 0.80 m; Length: 3.60 m
URO
Bos taurus primigenius
Height: 2.10 m; Width: 1.10 m; Length: 4.00 m
FOSSIL SKULL FRAGMENT OF A EUROPEAN DEER
Cervus elaphus
SABER TOOTHED TIGER SKULL
Smilodon fatalis
PARTIAL REPRODUCTION OF AURUS SKULL
Bos taurus primigenius
Width: 93 cm
PARTIAL UPPER PART OF EUROPEAN MEGALOCERUS SKULL (FOSSIL)
Giant Megaloceros
FOSSIL PARTS OF EUROPEAN MEGALOCEROUS SKELETON
Giant Megaloceros
WILD BOAR JAW (FOSSIL)
Sus scrofa majori
Central Italy, c. 3000 years ago
Height: 12 cm; Width: 15 cm; Length: 32 cm
FOSSIL PARTS OF WILD HORSE SKELETON
Equus ferus
HOMO SAPIENS
Homo sapiens
Height: 1.72 m; Width: 0.60 m
ADULT NEANDERTHAL MAN (1)
Neanderthal man
Height: 1.00 m
ADULT NEANDERTHAL MAN (2)
Neanderthal man
Height: 1.60 m
ADULT NEANDERTHAL MAN (3)
Neanderthal man
Height: 1.60 m
ADULT NEANDERTHAL MAN (4)
Neanderthal man
Height: 1.60 m
ADULT NEANDERTHAL MAN (6)
Neanderthal man
Height: 1.60 m
ADULT NEANDERTHAL MAN (WOMAN)
Neanderthal man
Height: 0.95 m
ADULT NEANDERTHAL MAN (WOMAN 2)
Neanderthal man
Height: 0.95 m
NEANDERTHAL MAN (CHILD, ESTIMATED AGE 12 YEARS)
Neanderthal man
Height: 0.95 m
NEANDERTHAL MAN (NEONATE)
Neanderthal man
Height: 0.50 m
NEANDERTHAL HUT
Faithful life-size reconstruction
Height: 1.60 m; Width: 3.80 m
TOOLS (1)
Tools from the Neanderthal period
TOOLS (2)
Tools from the Neanderthal period
FLINT POINTS
Tools from the Neanderthal period