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1000000

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The museum is powered entirely by solar energy. Its roof is covered with 4,000 solar panels that generate enough electricity to meet the entire facility's needs.

Inside the museum, you'll find a robot-operated cafe where robotic arms serve meals and drinks to visitors.

The exterior façade of the Museum of the Future is covered in an illuminated Arabic calligraphy style called “Tuluth” which showcases quotes from the UAE's Founding Father, Sheikh Zayed.

Why is the Museum of the Future so famous?

About Famous Museum Of The Future
  • An initiative by Dubai Future Foundation or DFF, the MOTF is unique from other museums around the world. The museum uses virtual reality, Augmented reality, and other modern technologies to help you take a peek at the future.
  • The building is LEED-certified, and it is one of the city's low-carbon structures. 
  • The panels of the museum have Arabic calligraphy engraved on them, which creates a glow inside the museum. The words for the calligraphy were taken from the poems of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed.
  • Inside the museum, you’ll get a chance to question the future of human beings and nature as a whole.
Museum of the Future Exhibitions & Experiences

History of the Museum of the Future

History of Museum Of The Future

The plans to establish the museum were announced in 2015 by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime Minister of UAE and the ruler of Dubai.

On 7th February 2016, he inaugurated the MOTF exhibition during the World Government Summit. Later, in April the same year, he launched the Dubai Future Foundation, and the museum became a part of this. The museum was temporarily opened in Madinat Jumeirah in 2017 and 2018 as a part of the World Government Summits.

After these temporary openings and launches, the museum's official opening ceremony was finally conducted on 22nd February 2022.

Museum of the Future design & architecture

Museum Of The Future Design & Architecture

The exterior and interior of the building are designed to make anyone go awe-struck! With a pillar-less structure, stainless steel exteriors, and calligraphy panels, the completion of the building required the designers to push all the boundaries of architecture. The building has an elliptical structure, and the facade of the building has beautiful windows where the poems of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed are engraved in Arabic calligraphy. To give life to the design that Killa designs created, Buro Happold and the design firm developed new parametric modeling tools, such as the growth algorithm, which is used to grow the steel structure digitally. The framework of the building, known as a diagrid, has around 2,400 diagonally intersecting steel members, and it took the engineers around 14 months to complete the steelwork.

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What does the Museum of the Future calligraphy mean?

Museum Of The Future Calligraphy

One of the most attractive features of the building is the Arabic calligraphy engraved on its facade. It is designed by Mattar bin Lahej, a renowned Emirati artist. Interestingly, these inspiring Arabic words are taken from poems written by HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

These poems are his visions of the future, and hence, there are no better words other than these poems that can reflect the museum's aim. The words written there roughly translate to “We won't live for hundreds of years, but we can create something that will last for hundreds of years.”

What are the sustainability solutions showcased at the Museum of the Future? 

About Museum Of The Future

With its focus on sustainability, the Museum Of The Future has dedicated one of its floors to the cause of climate change and its effects on global warming. It explores the possibility of the collection of solar energy in space and asteroid mining.

Its design and functionality also echo similar sensibilities. Museum Of The Future has a low-carbon building with innovations and strategies involving a parametric design and a passive solar architecture to recover energy and water. The building also has a smart irrigation system for optimum water usage and to minimize water wastage. Besides, the building will have greywater recycling systems, building control solutions, and regenerative drive lifts, and the power needed for the same will be sourced from photovoltaic solar arrays. The calligraphy on the exterior acts as windows to allow sunlight to seep in.

What’s inside the Museum of the Future?

The MOTF, across its seven floors and five chapters, offers a wide range of experiences to visitors. Find out what's inside Museum Of The Future.

OSS Hope

A visit to the museum helps you experience what living in outer space is like. It has a spaceship named Hope, with screens resembling the windows showing breathtaking views while lifting off. As you start the trip to space, you will enjoy the aerial views of Dubai's iconic attractions. Before moving closer to space, you’ll see our planet's atmosphere and other objects in space. The four-minute journey ends at the Orbital Space Station or OSS, which is situated on the 5th floor of the building and depicts a station that is 600 km above our planet. Find out the technological discoveries and OSS missions at the station's command centers.

Heal Institute

Spread across the 4th floor, get a chance to learn about nature and the natural ecosystem in a deeper way. Here, a large screen plays a video clip shot from the real rainforests of the Amazon. Through this, the museum is trying to educate the visitors about the climate change resulting from deforestation and global warming. The DNA Library, a part of the Heal institute, provides visitors with insights about different species in nature. It showcases more than 2400 varieties of species in glass cases, including angiosperms, mammals, and more. In this exhibition, you’ll be given a device to collect any species to understand whether it is endangered or not.

Al Waha

Located on the 3rd floor, Al Waha is a futuristic spa where visitors can immerse themselves in meditation and enjoy a digital detox. In the spa, you’ll be greeted with a vapor that pours from a structure similar to a fountain. Besides, the exhibit will also help you reconnect with your mind, soul, and other human senses by providing you with some soothing experiences using virtual reality.

Tomorrow Today

Explore the 2nd floor if you want to take a ride through technological developments to understand how the researchers and designers are handling the present challenges. Learn how to tackle the cultural, environmental, political, and social issues to ensure the earth has a positive future through the technological knowledge you have.

Future Heroes

Future Heroes is a dedicated space for the kids on Floor 1 where kids get a chance to explore and discover a futuristic world. However, instead of a playground, the building has an imaginary lab where the children can build and hone the skills that will help them imagine and design their future. The display also aims to promote a future-like environment and focus on problem-solving skills in children.

Frequently asked questions about the Museum of the Future Dubai

The Museum of The Future is an exhibition space to showcase the innovations and other products that will shape the future. Unlike other museums, MOTF is a living museum where the exhibit contents are renewed based on the development in the technological sector.

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