Italian Embassy organizes exhibition in Georgia to share experience over mountaineering, climate change

The Italian Embassy in Georgia is scheduled this week to hold an exhibition in Tbilisi and later in Svaneti titled “Italian Routes. Mountain, Alpinism, Climatic Change” to share Italian culture and experience related to mountains and mountaineering to the local audience.

 

The exhibition, curated by Italian photographer and researcher Fabiano Ventura, is a project of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the non-profit association Macromicro, aiming to share Italian experience over the mentioned topics to the wider international community.

 

The exhibition consists of three parts – general introduction, Italian mountains and the view of the world – which are accompanied by historical material about the first expeditions.

 

“This is an impressive display of historical and contemporary photographs of the World’s most important mountain systems, including the Alps, the Caucasus, the Andes and the Himalayas, perfectly conveying the impact of melting glaciers and climate change on the mountain landscape,” said the Italian Embassy on Monday.

 

The official opening of the exhibition, organized by the Embassy of Italy in cooperation with two museums of the National Museum of Georgia – Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum and Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography – is scheduled on July 19, Tuesday, at 19:00 at Ioseb Grishashvili Tbilisi History Museum (Sioni St. 8), where it will be presented until August 31, while the Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography (in Mestia) will host the part of the exposition related to Svaneti from August 1 to August 31.