Welcome on board, the future’s here

If there was one thing that the pandemic taught us, it was to live in the present. But sometimes, our present is a gift from our predecessors.

We reap what they have sown. Which is why future is not always a time long, long away. Sometimes, it is right ahead of us.

Firming its present, Dubai has always had its gaze fixed on the future. As a matter of fact, future — imagining and reimagining it — is almost a discipline unto itself, with a number of institutions set up to look at the direction the emirate should be taking economically and infrastructurally in a couple of years.

The Museum of the Future, which opens to public today, is possibly the most ambitious step in this endeavour.

Museum is an interesting word to choose for something that looks ahead rather than looking back.

Museums are spaces that safeguard our past, neatly stack them so that generations can understand their social and cultural heritage better. Sure, we understand ourselves better when we understand our past. But in peeking into the future, we get a better sense of what the ‘now’ must comprise.

The Museum of the Future, in that sense, is a unique initiative; it is a laboratory of ideas that can shape our future but for which we must take the leap now, in the process inspiring us to embrace change instead of being sceptical about it.

From a giant elevator taking you through a journey into the future of societies, human beings and life on the earth to coming face to face with tangible technology, the Museum of the Future is your ticket to a world of possibilities. Immerse yourself in it!