{"id":53329,"date":"2026-10-30T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/?p=53329"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:31:00","slug":"treasury-of-ice-lucerne-swiss-glaciers-relics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/treasury-of-ice-lucerne-swiss-glaciers-relics\/53329\/","title":{"rendered":"A museum in Lucerne is showing what Switzerland\u2019s melting glaciers have given up, from 8,000-year-old deer antler to a crushed mayonnaise tube, in a year when the country\u2019s glaciers lost 5.5% of their volume, the second-worst loss on record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, is showing objects that came out of the ice as the country\u2019s glaciers melted. The oldest are deer antler and pine wood about 8,000 years old, and the other finds include a hunting bow, a Roman-era statuette and a crushed tube of mayonnaise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition is called Schatzkammer Eis, which is German for Treasury of Ice. It opened at the Glacier Garden museum on September 23, and it will be on view until August 22, 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show opened in a year when Swiss glaciers lost 5.5 percent of their volume, which is the second-worst loss on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andreas Burri, the director of the Glacier Garden, tells the Associated Press<\/a> that the glaciers are disappearing so quickly that the exhibition treats them as an archive of what is going to be lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burri even admits that some of the objects are simply rubbish that someone lost or threw away. But he thinks that they still show the variety of what\u2019s coming out of the ice now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the museum, it\u2019s the first exhibition that brings glacier archaeology and ice-core research together. Instead of setting it up as a catalog of pieces, the museum organized it around 15 stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schatzkammer Eis is organized around 15 stories rather than as a catalog of objects. Photo: Heinz Dahinden \/ \u00a9 Gletschergarten Luzern (press image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some of the oldest pieces in the show come from Untere Streml\u00fccke, on the Brunnifirn glacier in the canton of Uri. The museum says that the ice there has released deer antler, Swiss stone pine wood and traces of rock-crystal working that date to around 6000 B.C.E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the ice cores, they preserve soot and charcoal from the fires of the great drought of 1540.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other objects are much more recent, such as a wine bottle, a cracked climbing helmet, a cow skull, boots, skiing gear and an early knife in the style of a Swiss Army knife. There is also a cylinder of ice in the room that drips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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