At first glance, Futurium, the new museum designed by Berlin-based architects Richter Musikowski, reminds me of a spaceship, in iridescent glass and metal with gargantuan panoramic windows. On the banks of the River Spree, sandwiched between office buildings, it is designed to look like a kaleidoscopic geometric crystal.
Everything at the museum — built at a whopping 50 million euro — revolves around the question, ‘How do we want to live?’ Its three floors are divided into the Futurium Lab, where visitors can try out futuristic things; the Forum, where they can participate in debates and discussions on topics concerning the future; and the Exhibition on the top floor, where people ‘can discover many possible futures’. Divided into three Thinking Spaces, titled Human, Nature and Technology, each hosts its own exhibitions.
