By 2025, Dubai aims to move up three spots on the list of most popular travel destinations – to number one. To achieve this, it relies, among other things, on a huge donut made of steel, the Museum of the Future. A visit to the museum and a look at what still needs to change.
A woman’s voice addresses those waiting in the elevator cabin in English and Arabic, translated: “Welcome aboard, en route to the Hope space station.” The doors close and the virtual space shuttle takes off with a deafening noise. The skyline and desert pass by the side windows, the archipelagos of Palm Jumeirah and Jebel Ali can be seen on the floor, hundreds of windmills turn in the sea off the coast before the starry sky appears through the skylight. Two minutes later, the cabin docks with a space station in 2071 and releases visitors to the top floor of the Museum of the Future (MOTF).