Featured Project

The Field Museum, Chicago Illinois
"Mammoths and Mastadons: Titans of the Ice Age"

The Field Museum’s exciting new 7,500-square-foot traveling exhibition takes visitors on a journey to the Ice Age, where they can roam among life-sized recreations of the largest creatures to ever walk North American soil (including the short-faced bear arctodus simus and a saber-toothed tiger homotherium serum), and marvel at some of the oldest human artifacts still in existence. The exhibit includes fossils, engaging interactives, immersive media, and the story of the most complete and best-preserved mammoth ever found, the baby Lyuba.

Blue Rhino studio is proud to team up with with the expert designers and scientists at the Field to produce flesh reproductions and naturalistic platforms for this spectacular exhibit, including reconstructions of the entire Proboscidean family from mammoths to elephants, as well as some of the most iconic megafauna of the pleistocene. In collaborating with paleontologists and using scientific data, we are able to produce naturalistic, accurate pieces of dynamic artwork that truly seem to come alive.

Creating large-scale works that are able to travel across the country securely, and be assembled and dissembled at will, was an exciting but not unfamiliar proposition for the Blue Rhino Team. The large, touchable, sculpted animals assemble and dissemble seamlessly with all steel framework and bracing hidden from view. Each piece is fitted to its own specially designed cart, built entirely here in the shop. All of the finished creatures, even the 13-foot-tall Columbian Mammoth, can be put together or packed up expediently, with basic tools and hardware, by a small group of onsite staff. Watch our time-lapse video!

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