Dubai launches its "Museum of the Future"

The Museum of the Future, a new global hub for future thinking, technology and innovation, will launch today in the Emirates. The Museum, located in the city of Dubai, is a permanent exhibition of inspiring visions for the future of humanity and a global center for inspiration, innovation and the development of solutions to the challenges and opportunities of human development.

Dubbed "the most beautiful building in the world" and designed by the Dubai Future Foundation, the Museum disrupts the traditional concept of a museum, which consists of a static display of historical objects. This Museum serves as an experimentation for new concepts, ideas, visions and innovations that will transform our lives, improve society and benefit the whole world. It reflects the rapidly changing intellectual environment in areas such as: science, artificial intelligence, space exploration, climate adaptation, urban life and mobility. Furthermore, it will integrate new ideas, the latest research results and emerging capacities in these areas.

The Museum of the Future is a "living museum", which "is constantly adapting and changing, as its very environment brings about continuous and iterative changes in its exhibits and attractions", said Mohammed Al Gergawi, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Cabinet of the United Arab Emirates and Chairman of the Dubai Future Foundation."The Museum brings together futurists, thinkers, innovators and the public in an experimentation with ideas that define the world of the future and shape the way we interact with our world future."

The Museum of the Future will contribute to creating a deep and wide-ranging global intellectual movement, dedicated to exploring and forecasting future changes in the fields of innovation, science, economic and cultural development in the service of humanity. .

As a global center for the development of futuristic thinking, it will connect thinkers, scholars and experts from around the world by hosting forums, research and knowledge sessions throughout the year. It will also disseminate knowledge and research and highlight the most important technological changes, new scientific discoveries and emerging trends.

For HE Mohammed Al Gergawi: “It's the most beautiful building in the world. It's beautiful because of its design, it's beautiful because of its message, and it's beautiful because of its purpose. We believe that the next 50 years will be marked by as many new challenges and new opportunities, as many changes as the last 500 years, and even more. It is the global center where the world can share visions for this coming change."

For Khalfan Belhoul, CEO of the Dubai Future Foundation: "that the Museum is a center for us to define our human future. The whole structure represents humanity and stands on a green hill, characterizing the Earth, and the space at its heart signifies a future yet to be discovered .It's the gateway to our future world."

Designed by architect Shaun Killa of Killa Design, the building was thought of as an architectural and cultural icon, and is a remarkable feat of computer-aided design and engineering. Its parametric design, created through an algorithmic design process that supports complex geometries, and the innovative use of Building Information Modeling (Bim), a design technology based on three-dimensional models, resulted in a toroidal structure of 77 meters high and implemented without using a single column.

The facade of the Museum covers an area of ​​17 square meters. Made of stainless steel, made up of 600 pieces of art made using robots capable of creating the most demanding shapes, the facade was built over a period of 1 months and includes a complex assembly of panels of composite materials four layers each requiring more than 024 processing steps. It is illuminated by 18 meters of luminous lines, tracing Arabic calligraphy representing three quotes on the future of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai. The 16 panels were chosen to represent one kilobyte, or 14 characters.

The three quotes inscribed on the building in Arabic calligraphy are as follows:

• “We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone”;
• "The future belongs to those who can imagine it, design it and execute it. It is not something we wait for, but something we create";
• “Innovation is not an intellectual luxury. It is the secret to the evolution and rejuvenation of nations and peoples”.

The Museum of the Future is powered by 4 megawatt hours per year of solar energy generated by a dedicated solar park and meets the highest global sustainability standards.

The heart of the Museum is its multipurpose hall, which can accommodate more than 1 people, as well as a special room for conferences and interactive workshops, which can accommodate more than 000 people. The Museum also includes innovation labs for health, education, smart cities, energy and transport, a permanent exhibition of future innovations and labs to generate and test ideas, especially in development areas. related to societal challenges.

The Museum also incorporates a platform to showcase and test innovations from some of the world's leaders and entrepreneurs in technology and innovation, a place to partner with leading universities and international research institutes, advanced research courses on the latest discoveries in the human sciences as well as specialized workshops.

Experiential exhibits for public visitors

The Museum contains a series of experimental exhibits that the general public can visit and be inspired by different aspects of future thinking. Spread over five levels of the seven-story building, they include, from top to bottom, OSS Hope, The Heal Institute, Al Waha, Tomorrow Today and Future Hereos.

OSS Hope is a presentation of humanity's home in space, where visitors can play out their own story, join their community, and experience what life could be like aboard a massive space station in 2071.

The Heal Institute presents a lush rainforest experience, a digital recreation of an actual portion of the Amazon rainforest in Leticia, Colombia, depicting the ecosystem with unparalleled realism. The Rainforest Ecosystem Simulator helps visitors better understand nature and their responsibility to it as we face environmental change.

Al Waha is an opportunity for visitors to explore themselves in a world that simulates their senses, embarking on a private journey in an environment centered on health and well-being, detached from technology, allowing them to meditate, reconnect with themselves and restore their natural balance.

Tomorrow Today explores the contrasting ways technology can shape the future and the varied responses it can provide to the challenges facing the planet and society. More than 50 exhibits showcase prototypes and current products in five areas, including waste management, environment, food security, agriculture and irrigation, and urban planning.

Downstairs from the public display levels, Future Heroes is a play space designed for children under 10 that encourages young minds to make new discoveries about themselves and the world around them.