Polar Museum "Silvio Zavatti"

Welcome to the Polar Museum “Silvio Zavatti”,
the first museum in Italy dedicated to the Arctic Peoples and the Polar Explorers.

since 1969

Welcome to the Polar Museum "Silvio Zavatti"

Through the splendid halls with frescoed ceilings of Palazzo Paccaroni you will find yourself catapulted into the camp of a polar explorer, among tents, sledges and crates carefully arranged and ready for the long journey through the icy winds and glaciers of the far North.

Welcome to the Polar Museum "Silvio Zavatti"

Through the splendid halls with frescoed ceilings of Palazzo Paccarone you will find yourself catapulted into the camp of a polar explorer, among tents, sledges and crates carefully arranged and ready for the long journey through the icy winds and glaciers of the far North.

Venturing among polar bears, reindeer, arctic foxes, narwhals, walruses, seals, whales, you can finally rest in the tranquil Inuit villages. You will come into contact with the culture, art, dance and traditions of a people that so fascinated Silvio Zavatti that he became the champion and a staunch defender of their rights.

The Polar Museum is part of the Polar Geographical Institute established by Zavatti in 1944 in Forlì which also includes a very rich Polar Library, the Zavatti Archive of the Polar Geographical Institute and the Il Polo magazine which has been published continuously since 1945.

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The Polar Museum

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Room I - Journey to the North Pole

How to organize an expedition to the North Pole? How do you prepare for a journey through the eternal ice? Come and find out with us!

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Room II - Zavatti
and the Polar Explorations

Silvio Zavatti’s boundless passion for the endless expanses of ice and the great Italian explorations at the poles.

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Room III - Polar environments

Both are covered with immense expanses of ice and the cold reigns perennially. Nature is hostile, life is extreme. But … what are the differences between the North Pole and the South Pole? Where do penguins live? And the polar bears?

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Room IV: Polar Cartography Room and Donations

Destination … Arctic? O Antarctica?
Discovering the Poles … only with the help of a “simple” compass!

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Room V: The Inuit

Who are the Inuit, the people who live among the ice of the North Pole?

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Room VI: The Inuit

Continue the journey to discover the peoples living the Arctic Circle

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Inuit and climate change

Currently the survival of the Inuit populations is strongly threatened by climate and environmental changes.

Inuit and climate change

Currently the survival of the Inuit populations is strongly threatened by climate and environmental changes.

"Inuit hunters have been noticing climate changes and strong warning signs of climate change for some years," said But Okalik, president of the Canadian National Inuit Youth Council. The Inuit fully represent the human barometer of climate change and their ancestral knowledge should be considered as empirical evidence.

The effects of climate change are compounded by the economic and social changes and living conditions resulting from the greater influence of Western culture and lifestyles and from the strong pressures made by the economic powers to exploit the natural resources of which their lands are very rich . The progressive distortion of the Inuit culture and of living habits is leading to an evident social alienation that manifests itself with very high rates of alcoholism and suicide.

Even the Greenpeace campaign (by their own admission) with the ban on seal hunting, has created very serious survival problems for the natives who have lost the main means of livelihood, which for centuries has allowed them to survive in an environment extreme and inhospitable.

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Partners

Some of our partnerships
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