‘Italian Routes. Mountain, Alpinism, Climate Change’ is another exhibition organized by the Italian Embassy in Tbilisi, which will be held both in the capital of Georgia and in the regional museum.
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’, which aims to share Italian culture related to mountains and mountaineering to the wider international community.
The exhibition consists of three parts (‘General introduction’, ‘Italian mountains’ and ‘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.
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 for July 19, Tuesday, at 19:00 at Ioseb Grishashvili’s house. It will be presented in the Tbilisi History Museum (Sioni St. 8), where it will be presented until August 31, while the Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography (Mestia) will host the part of the exposition related to Svaneti from August 1 to August 31.
Source: Embassy of Italy to Georgia
