the Museum of the Future opens to the public
How to invite citizens to explore the future? With the’flying manalias Riccardo Browningthe inventor of the jet suit, which distributes tickets as it darted among Dubai’s skyscrapers. Destined to become another icon of the city skyline, after the Burj Khalifa, the tallest skyscraper in the world and the Burj Al Arab, the famous sail, it opened to the public the Museum of the Future. “The most beautiful building on earth”, tweeted the Sheikh of Dubai. Nine years of work, you should open before Expo, 77 meters high, 30,000 square meters, for one oval structure without pillars, supported only by diagonal beams. Signature of the architect Shaun Killawas included by National Geographic among the 14 museums to see in the world.
But in addition to the rhetoric that characterizes the city of records, this new museum, more in its architectural structure and in its meaning than in what we find then exhibited inside, is a center conceived not only as tourist destinationCome place of discussioncomparison, Research, experimentation about the future. Strongly desired by Sheikh Al Maktoum, it is another sign of the will of transformation of the Emirates: leave the oil era behind and bring back the Arab culture athe role it played in the heyday of Islam, a thousand years ago.
As it took several pavilions at Expo, this was the land of astronomical, mathematicians, explorers, there. “A global science platform – underlined the Sheikh – to stimulate a new era of discoveries. The museum will be a forum for great minds, thinkers and experts from around the world, ”she added. What are we inside it? Driven by an artificial intelligence, one spacecraft takes us into space to observe the Earth from above and discover solutions to save her, like solar panels that hug the moon and direct the sun’s energy to our planet. Back down, we are in 2071: flying taxis, an immense library that stores all the living animal and plant species, including extinct ones, and the natural habitats once again intact. And if the emptiness in the middle of this great eye, leaning on the knowledge of the past and guarded by the poetic verses that decorate it, represents theunknownwhat has yet to happen, the contents of the museum can only be mutual, constantly renewed with the latest technological achievements and scientific discoveries.
Elisabetta Norzi