<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:21px;line-height:24px;font-family:CNNTravel,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Most museums show exhibits from the past or the present, so what exactly is a museum of the future?</span><br></h3></span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">"Each of the floors represents the future of healthcare, transportation, aviation, smart cities, government services, space travel, you name it," explains Shaun Killa, design partner of Dubai-based Killa Design, the architecture studio behind the building. "But it's the future as we understand it for maybe the next two to three years."</span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The green mound that the Museum of the Future sits upon represents Earth, with the main building symbolizing humanity. But the void at the center represents what we don't yet know about the future. In other words, the unknown.</span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">"The people who seek the unknown are the people who invent and discover things," says Killa. "These people will constantly replenish the museum over time, so there's a perpetual continuum because of the unknown. That's why the void is there -- you have our understanding of the future, and then you have something that isn't there."</span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">It's existential stuff.</span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">What that currently translates to is a collection of interactive experiences that takes visitors into a vision of the near future.</span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">In the cavernous lobby, a penguin-shaped drone swims through the air to a futuristic soundtrack of bleeps and bloops. An elevator, masquerading as a spacecraft with screens for windows, shoots visitors upwards on a four-minute flight to the OSS Hope space station, 600 kilometers above the earth and 50 years into the future.</span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">There's a library of 4,500 animal DNA codes to "collect" on smart devices. The future tech area has a touch of "Black Mirror" about it, ranging from the frankly terrifying CyberDog to under-skin payment chips, virus-resistant clothing and a falcon-shaped robot designed to control real bird populations.</span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">But the real beauty is the space itself, and the museum's now immediately recognizable shape. "It needed to be futuristic, and needed a sense of direction," says Killa. "If it had been a perfect oval, it would have been stagnant." The torus form and off-center void give a feeling of perpetual motion. "There's a sense that it's constantly in movement. The future is always moving, and you've got to keep up with it."</span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/museum-of-the-future-dubai/index.html">Defying gravity: How Dubai's Museum of the Future was built | CNN Travel</a><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-Paragraph__component" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:16px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:21px;font-family:CNNSans,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div>