A replica of “Lupe the Mammoth”. The bones of this juvenile Columbian mammoth were found along the Guadalupe River.
“This has been my first experience working with the Children’s Discovery Museum, or any other museum, in developing an exhibit,” says Kaitlin Maguire, graduate student at the UC Museum of Paleontology.
She’s been working with the Children’s Discovery Museum (CDM), for the past two years as a consultant for their upcoming exhibit, Mammoth Discovery!, that opens on Saturday, June 11th. The exhibit features a replica of the full skeleton of a juvenile Columbian mammoth, Lupe, named after the Guadalupe River where she was found.
“I was brought in to provide the content about mammoths and the history of San Jose during the Ice Age. And so my role has been providing information to the staff here so that they could create the exhibits. That includes little things like what was the vegetation like during the Pleistocene to how old Lupe was, how big [she] was. And also helping with brainstorming to fabrication.”