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Dubai’s Museum of the Future, billed as the world’s most beautiful structure, opened on Tuesday.

The museum is a seven-story hollow silver elliptical with Arabic calligraphy phrases from Dubai’s ruler adorning the walls. It is prominently displayed on Sheikh Zayed Road, the city’s major thoroughfare.

In the evening, a colourful laser light show illuminated the building’s spectacular front, drawing throngs outside to catch a glance.

It was later inaugurated by Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, whose vision of the future is recognised as the museum’s driving force.

The Museum of the Future, named the “most beautiful building in the world,” had a grand opening here, celebrating the advent of another long-awaited landmark in the UAE that had been nine years in the making.

This enormous edifice, a wide seven-story circular building standing at 77 metres and covering 30,000 square metres, is just a stone’s throw away from the world’s tallest structure, the Burj Khalifa, another renowned monument that has become an integral part of Dubai’s skyline.

While the museum’s contents are yet to be unveiled, organisers say it will showcase design and technological breakthroughs, leading visitors on a “journey to the year 2071.”

Ahead of its spectacular launch, roadside billboards proclaimed the museum the “most beautiful building on Earth,” despite its proximity to the world’s tallest structure, the Burj Khalifa.

It is the latest addition to the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) collection of showy architecture, and it follows the $7 billion Expo international exhibition, which opened on the outskirts of Dubai on September 30 and included a swath of futuristic designs.

Another historic design in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi is a branch of France’s Louvre museum, whose licence was extended by a decade to 2047 last year at a cost of 165 million euros ($186 million).

Before Covid, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which was inaugurated by French President Emmanuel Macron in late 2017, had attracted roughly two million visitors in its first two years.

The UAE is a major oil exporter but also a big player in business, trade, transport and tourism, diversifying to reduce its reliance on crude.

The structure was conceived as an architectural and cultural symbol by architect Shaun Killa of Killa Design, and is a remarkable accomplishment of computer-aided design and engineering.

The façade alone took 18 months to build and consists of a complex assembly of four-layer composite material panels, each requiring over 16 process steps, it said. It is made of stainless steel and contains 1,024 pieces of art manufactured using robots uniquely able to create the demanding shapes.

It is lighted by 14,000 metres of light lines that trace Arabic calligraphy and depict three future quotes from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.

According to the press release, the 1,024 panels were chosen to symbolise a kilobyte, or 1,024 characters.

The Museum has a number of interactive exhibits where the general public can learn about and be inspired by many areas of future thinking.

The museum’s multi-use hall, which can hold more than 1,000 people, and an unique space for interactive lectures and workshops, which can hold more than 345 people, are at its heart, it said.

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