The press service of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute announced that an educational and entertaining exhibition called "Ice. Life" has opened in the Sevcable Port space in St. Petersburg. Visitors have a unique opportunity to see a fragment of an ice core from Antarctica that is over 600 thousand years old.
The core was raised from a depth of 3465 meters in the area of the Vostok station. This is one of the most inaccessible places on the planet. It is there that Russian scientists and polar explorers conduct important research related to the study of the planet's paleoclimate. Ancient ice stores invaluable information about the Earth's climate in the past. By studying this climatic record, scientists can draw conclusions about possible changes in the natural environment in the future.
The development of the concept of the exhibition "Ice. Life" was carried out with the participation of glaciologists and polar explorers who acted as consultants. The exhibition organically combines science and contemporary art, which will be interesting for both family and young audiences.
"The story of the various aspects of the existence of ice unfolds in the spectacular scenery of a spaceship that has embarked on an expedition to the Ice Planet. The visitors' guide on this theatrical journey into the unknown will be an audio story from the perspective of a glaciologist, polar explorer, nuclear physicist, and art historian, as well as the captain of the spaceship, voiced by Konstantin Khabensky," the message says.
The exhibition brings together collective knowledge and impressions of ice: from its physical and chemical properties to its use in everyday life, sports, art, as well as the technology of the nuclear icebreaker fleet, which provides icebreaking for ships in the Arctic.
Visitors will learn a lot of interesting things about the conquest of the Arctic, the drifting expedition "North Pole" and the ultra-modern nuclear icebreakers of the 22220 series. Children will have the opportunity to stand at the helm of a nuclear icebreaker and independently lay the Northern Sea Route through the thickness of the frozen ocean waters.
The exhibition also presents works by classics of Russian art of the late 20th - early 21st centuries and very young artists who, nevertheless, have already established themselves in the art scene.
The "expedition" is completed by the work of Alexander Ponomarev, created for the Antarctic Pavilion of the 2012 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. The artist's installation "Concordia" is a ship, Concordia, covered in real ice, which melts and then freezes again from time to time. Alexander Ponomarev was inspired to create it by the story of the sinking of the cruise ship Costa Concordia.
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