Glaciers not only store a large part of the world’s drinking water reserves, they are also natural archives that preserve historical data from times long past, layer by layer. Visitors can experience the observations about the spread of an exemplary alpine glacier obtained from ice cores in this interactive exhibit. By moving your hand along the individual layers, you can “scroll” through the last 43,000 years and experience the spread of the ice and the dynamics and long-term currents in a large-format projection. This period extends from the beginning of the oldest known human cave drawings and is accompanied by atmospheric soundscapes and sounds from the ice.

The current changes in our climate are causing these ice archives to disappear irretrievably, and with them the sources of thousands of years of climate data. The installation shows how global warming is thus challenging not only our future, but also our past.