Museum of the Future welcomes 1 mn visitors in 1 year

Dubai’s iconic Museum of the Future has received more than one million visitors from 163 countries in a year since it was officially opened.

Mohammad Al Gergawi, chairman of the museum, said: "We pledged that the Museum of the Future would host one million visitors in its first year, and today we celebrate the achievement of this target and the launch of a new year for the museum, during which we will continue to design the future for a better world for all in the coming years and decades."

Since opening, the museum – an initiative by the Dubai Future Foundation – has hosted more than 180 local, regional and global activations, events, conferences and forums that cover technology, entrepreneurship, economy, space, tourism, culture and varied futurist-specific sectors, all while receiving more than 200 media delegations from around the world.

More than 1,000 international dignitaries, ministers, officials and experts visited the museum throughout the past year, including around 20 heads of government and official delegations from South Korea, Estonia, Luxembourg, China, Greece, Hong Kong, Thailand and Rwanda and Mauritius, among others.

Since its inauguration, the destination has won 10 international awards from global institutions and specialised industry magazines for its content quality, future sciences, and architectural design.