Espace des Mondes Polaires, Polar museum and ice rink in Prémanon, Jura, France.

Espace des Mondes Polaires is a 5,000 m² cultural and sports complex in Prémanon, in the Jura, opened in 2017. Its low, curved building has a facade of white rectangular panels and large glass windows, with a wooden deck at its base. Inside are a museum on the Arctic and Antarctic, an ice rink, a multi-purpose room, an 80-seat auditorium, a restaurant, a shop and a tourist office annex.

The Paul-Émile-Victor museum opened in Prémanon in 1989, created by Pierre Marc with the support of the explorer who had spent his childhood in the Jura. From 2003 Jean-Christophe Victor and Stéphane Niveau pushed for a larger complex combining a new polar museum with the nearby Haut-Jura ice rink. Construction began in 2013 with the demolition of a bowling alley; a fire damaged the multi-purpose room roof on 2 July 2015, and the Espace des mondes polaires opened on 19 February 2017.

The museum is named after Paul-Émile Victor, the Jura-born explorer who spent his childhood in the region and whose son Jean-Christophe Victor pushed for the new building from 2003. Its displays give the floor to explorers, scientists and contemporary artists, and raise questions such as the future of the polar bear and of Inuit peoples.

The building sits in Prémanon, one of the four villages of the Station des Rousses. Its 5,000 m² hold a museum, ice rink, multi-purpose room, 80-seat auditorium, restaurant, shop, bag room and a tourist-office annex, with a landscaped garden. The structure is sunk 60% into the ground and lit by light wells; a 30 m³ tank collects rainwater.

The ice rink's scenery recreates the polar ice floe, with film projections and lighting that evoke Arctic auroras. The building reuses 80% of the heat given off by ice production, backed by 15 geothermal boreholes, and is sunk 60% into the ground to limit heat loss.