As part of the Venice VeneTOnight event series ‘Notte della Ricerca’ (Night of Research), which took place on September 29th, in three cities across Veneto on the same evening, APECS Italy represented together with the University Ca’Foscari of Venice and IDPA-CNR at the ‘Climate of the Past’ stand, where researchers offered the public a glimpse of how polar research is organized. Real ice cores, a poster and a hands-on component using an artificial ice core helped to engage visitors by bringing to life the techniques used and the impacts of the data acquired when engaging in this type of polar research.