The main objective of this exhibition, as well as the “Music of the Glacier” project, in general, was to attract public attention to the deglaciation problem. Today, this problem is particularly vital for the Central Asia countries: the total area of all the glaciers in its territory is 116 000 km2, accounting for about one-fifth of the total world’ glaciers. These particular glaciers, keeping on melting at an alarming rate from year to year, feed 10 major rivers of the Eurasian continent.

L. Saidova, a Goethe Institute teacher, who was compiling the educational materials for the “The Glacier Music” project says:

- It is worth remembering that even when we make a cup of coffee or do styling with a hair dryer, we consume a certain amount of electricity, and the generated heat, the one that ultimately contributes to global warming, releases into the atmosphere. Our project presents the glacier as a living being in distress, begging for help, calling on the people to reflect over such everyday small things that, when cumulated, exert detrimental effect on the glaciers that provide us with the most valuable thing that we need for life - water.

The cultural and didactic exhibition “The Glacier Music” takes place in an unusual exciting format: the exposition includes not only paintings and photographs, but also didactic interactive components, movies, communication tasks, as well as the games based on the works of the Open Competition “Music of the Glacier” winners (Central Asia) and German young designers - winners of the contests held in Berlin and Hamburg (Germany). The exhibition, aiming to inform about the main aspects of the deglaciation problem, is open to anyone who is interested in this issue and wants to learn more about climate change and what can be done to prevent the situation from getting worse.

The exhibition will be running until 10 October.