A ‘Museum of the Future’ in Dubai is expected to open in 2017 in the Emirates Towers area.
The museum is expected to be “an incubator for ideas and real designs, a driver for innovation and a global destination for inventors and entrepreneurs.”
President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has declared 2015 to be the year of innovation in the UAE. “Today we show how serious and committed we are to that mission by turning the UAE into a major international destination for innovators,” he said, reports Gulf News.
The museum’s motto, ‘See the future, create the future’, is designed to reflect a new approach to government innovation. The institution will use design, technology prototyping and foresight to create real examples of change.
The museum is the first of its kind and represents a leading example of entrepreneurial governments embracing change and creating futuristic visions for a better world.