LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — It’s bath time for “Archie.”

Crews at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln will be giving the life-sized bronze replica of an ancient Nebraska mammoth,

dubbed “Archie,” a scrub down and waxing on Thursday.

The statue gets a good cleaning every two years. The process is expected to take most of the morning Thursday.

Created by sculptor Fred Hoppe of Malcolm, the statue was cast in 1998 at the Caleco Foundry in Cody, Wyo., and installed on Tanner Plaza in October that year.

Patterned after the giant fossil skeleton on display in the museum’s Elephant Hall, the statue is 15-feet, 7-inches tall and weighs 5,000 pounds. The real mammoths that roamed the Great Plains some 30,000 years ago weighed about 15 tons.