Swore. In 2025, the Polar World Space is heading for Antarctica

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The Polar World Space reopens its doors to the general public on Friday December 13 at 6 p.m. with the presentation of its new season events that bring life to life. Place uniquethe only polar museum de France offers a new, unique season of adventures cultural, scientists et climatic.

Direction the Kerguelen Islands

For this saison 2025the new scientific and cultural manager of the Space of Polar Worlds, Laëtitia Thérond, who succeeded Stéphane Level at the head of the muséeinvites the public to venture to Antarctica.

A region of the world that she knows well, having sailed aboard the scientific vessel Marion Dufresne and participated in several scientific missions to Kerguelen Islandsfor the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF).

This is how she brought back in her suitcases, when she arrived in the Jura, the project to host in Prémanon the temporary exhibition “Conter le vivant”, produced by the computer scientist et photographer William Boffy, with his association Low Productions.

His photographs invite you to travel to the deep south, to the heart of roaring 40thwhere they rub shoulders albatross et king penguinsbut also rare plant species. William Boffy, whom Laetitia Thérond met during her missions, also invites visitors to reflect on the figures, percentages, statistics, on biodiversity and climate change so quickly imposed, so quickly forgotten.

Changing climate

“We feel a trauma linked to climate change in Haut-Jura, there is a real need to be able to talk about it and I am convinced that this is the role of a museum: to be this place of information and dialogue”

While the first snowflakes made a shy appearance last weekend after a year 2024 marked by temperature recordsa first moment of meeting cathartic will set the tone for what follows.

On demand elected officials of the community of municipalities, the scientific and cultural manager of the Espace des Mondespolares, has chosen to include in the programming of the season presentation a key and free moment, accessible to all audiences from the age of ten .

Friday, December 13, lecturer Arthur Kellerspecialist in systemic risks, will come and ask the question: “And now what do we do?” » to the public of locals, scientists andamateurs d’explorations andadventures came for the season presentation. To follow during the season, a whole series of conferences and events will transport the public from one pole to the other.

Through partnerships with theOpen University of Franche-Comtéthe Haut-Jura Regional Natural Park, the Monts Jura cinema library, but also with schools… and the resource center for the reduction of waste from exhibition furniture, the Space of Polar Worlds intends to anchor itself locally in the territory, while looking towards the ends of the world with a message universalist of respect and conservation of living things.

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