DUBAI: Dubai opened its Museum of the Long run the day before today, a construction it touts as the sector’s most lovely construction. The museum is a seven-storey hole silver ellipse adorned with Arabic calligraphy quotes from Dubai’s ruler. It takes satisfaction of position on Sheikh Zayed Street, town’s major freeway.

The construction’s placing facade was once lit up by way of a colourful laser gentle display within the night as crowds amassed out of doors to catch a glimpse. It was once formally opened later by way of Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, whose imaginative and prescient of the long run has been credited as the motive force at the back of the museum.

Whilst the museum’s contents are but to be published, it’ll showcase design and era inventions, taking the customer on a “adventure to the yr 2071”, organizers mentioned. Roadside signboards described the museum – simply mins clear of the sector’s tallest development, the Burj Khalifa – because the “most lovely construction on Earth” forward of its gala opening.

It’s the most recent addition to the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) choice of flashy structure and is derived after the $7-billion Expo international truthful, that includes a swathe of futuristic designs, opened on Dubai’s outskirts on Sept 30. The UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi is house to every other landmark design, a department of France’s Louvre museum, whose license was once prolonged by way of a decade remaining yr to 2047 at a price of €165 million ($186 million).

After French President Emmanuel Macron opened the Louvre Abu Dhabi in past due 2017, it attracted about two million guests in its first two years prior to COVID hit. The UAE is a big oil exporter but additionally a large participant in industry, business, delivery and tourism, diversifying to cut back its reliance on crude. – AFP