In the exhibit, photographer James Balog has captured thought-provoking (and jaw-dropping) images over a multi-year period that showcase the dramatic extent of melting glaciers around the world. Through photographic documentation and time-lapse videography of these glaciers, Extreme Ice provides guests an emotionally visual representation of limate change. (For example, the Grinnell Glacier has shrunk 90 percent since 1910. At current warming rates, it and all other similar formations in Montana’s Glacier National Park will disappear by 2030.)
Balog is the founder and director of the Earth Vision Institute and Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), a wide-ranging, ground-based, photographic study of glaciers. “Extreme Ice” features the EIS team’s global documentation of glacier melt—alongside other hands-on interactive and informative elements (including a wall of ice that people can touch)—to illustrate what is happening around the world at a rapid rate.
“Extreme Ice” will run through early 2019 at the museum, 5700 S. Lake Shore Dr. Other current exhibits include “U-505 Submarine,” “Great White Shark,” “All Aboard the Silver Streak: Pioneer Zephyr” and the LEGO-centered “Brick By Brick.”
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