The National Museum Cardiff has revealed a shortlist of three names for the woolly mammoth installed in its Grand Hall earlier this year.
The museum launched a competition at the start of the summer holidays to find a name for the new 3D-printed replica, which is based on a mammoth skeleton found in Condover, Shropshire, in 1986.
The panel whittled down a shortlist of their top three names out of more than 1,400 suggestions.
The three names selected for the shortlist are:
- Morus
- Macsen
- Tom Bones
Members of the public have been invited to visit the museum to cast their vote and help choose the winning name of the mammoth.
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Mared Maggs, head of National Museum Cardiff said: “We were blown away by all the entries we received and we’d like to thank everybody that submitted their entry. Whittling down over 1400 to just three wasn’t an easy decision.
“We encourage everybody who’s in Cardiff this half term to visit the museum to cast your vote and help decide our mammoth’s name.”
Voting for the final name will run throughout half term until Sunday 2 November. Only visitors to National Museum Cardiff can vote and will need to place a token in the bucket of the name they prefer.
Amgueddfa Cymru’s exhibitions and public engagements programme is supported by the People’s Postcode Lottery.
Laura Chow, head of charities at the People’s Postcode Lottery, said: “It's brilliant to see so many people getting involved in the ‘Name our Mammoth’ campaign and the creativity it has inspired.”