The Museum of the Future is brainchild of the Dubai Future Foundation and Killa Design, and will house a permanent exhibition about technology and creative thinking. It was designed “to celebrate humankind achievements and innovation that guides us into the future”. 

The architect Shaun Killa, foundator of Killa Design, composed its form using computer-aided design and employed sustainable architecture strategies, such as solar power. The result is a massive 77 meters high, 7-storey toroidal structure built without using columns: a rounded building, adorned with Arabic calligraphic inscriptions. Inside, it hosts a multipurpose hall, surrounded by a lecture hall, innovation laboratories for health, education, smart city concept, energy and transportation, as weel as permanent exhibition areas.

The structure is clad in stainless steel panels manufactured by computer numerical control that produced the pattern on them: lines of Arabic calligraphy representing three quotes on the future by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai.