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The Museum of the Future, whose soaring, arched stainless steel presence etched with Arabic calligraphy sits in the heart of Dubai's business district, was created with the mission of harnessing the lessons of our present to build the future, inviting viewers to participate in this process through a highly inclusive approach.
Local architecture firm Killa Design, which won the competition to design the museum in 2015, came up with the shape: according to the architect, the solid part of the structure represents today's knowledge. The void represents everything we do not yet know - in other words, the future. This institution seems then to focus on what's ahaed rather than maintaining what the past has left us, like tradiditional museums.
But it is not only the unusual profile that distinguishes the building from the emirate's hundreds of other sites. Cursive lettering serves as the museum's windows. By day, they cast soft light throughout the column-free interior; at night, they are dramatically illuminated by 14 kilometers of LED lights.
They are in the shape of Arabic calligraphy that adorns the exterior of the 78-meter-high museum:in three languages, Arabic, English and Mandarin, the inscription reads, "Ancestors planted the trees / descendants enjoy the shade". The phrase written by the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates tells a lot about the museum's founder's ambition and offers a fuller perspective: we shall not neglect the past but build on it to enhance the future.
This approch should not be new for those who know about the basics AI systems where the computer learns from the errors of the past and after a while becomes more and more clever. In fact inside you can experience all sorts of new techinologie: travelling to the space, exploring DNA map oe visiting a recreated Colombian site that was gone. Definately something to try.
