A 13-foot replica of a Columbian mammoth dwarfs everything else in the main room of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture as staff prepare the exhibits for “Titans of the Ice Age,” a large exhibit from the Field Museum of Chicago, shown Monday. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
One of the many full-sized reproductions of descendents or ancestors of mammoths and mastodons show the realistic detail of the new exhibit, “Titans of the Ice Age,” at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. The exhibit opens to the public Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
John Moredo-Burich, director of museum experience, points to the mammoth reproduction that dominates the main gallery of the Museum of Arts and Cultures Monday, Feb 6, 2017. The giant replica is of the Columbian mammoth, the species that dominated North America in the Pleistocene epoch. The exhibit will be complete and open to the public Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
John Moredo-Burich, director of museum experience, talks about the various realistic animal reproductions included in the upcoming “Titans of the Ice Age” exhibit, showing the many different ancestors and descendents of mastodons and mammoths. Photographed Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane. (Jesse Tinsley / The Spokesman-Review)
Titans of the Ice Age: Mammoths and Mastodons will be at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture from Feb. 11 through May 7
John Moredo-Burich, director of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, loves mammoths. “I have an anthropomorphic affinity for them,” he said with a straight face.