This special exhibition explores the Ice Age around 40,000 years ago, when humans lived alongside giant animals such as mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses. Through rare fossils, specimens, reconstructions, and skeletal displays, it reveals how life endured in an extreme climate and examines why some species became extinct while others survived.
A major highlight is the first display in Japan of actual Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon skulls. Although both groups lived during the same period, they followed very different paths. Complete skeletons and reconstructed models of Ice Age megafauna offer a vivid sense of the creatures that inhabited this frozen world, while presenting the mystery of survival and extinction from both human and animal perspectives.
Woolly mammoth skeleton (replica)
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany
©rem, Foto: Sarah-Nelly Friedland
- Jul. 18, 2026 (Sat) ~ Sep. 27, 2026 (Sun)
- Closed: Mondays (Open on Jul. 20, Aug. 10, and Sep. 21, and closed on Jul. 21)
- 9:30~17:00 (open until 19:00 on Saturdays, Last entry: 30 min. before closing)
- ¥2,000, college and HS ¥1,200, ES and JHS ¥600
- Kyushu National Museum
- 4-7-2 Ishizaka, Dazaifu, Fukuoka
- Website
Reconstruction of a steppe bison
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany
©Marc Steinmetz