Discovering Futures with Children
Futurium Kids
The Futurium is open to everyone. For children and families, we offer private tours and invite you to join our open workshops called "Family Open Lab" which take place every weekend. You prefer to explore the exhibition and Futurium Lab on your own? No problem! You will find something to discover for all age groups throughout the entire house. Online too, of course.
Where the future becomes a family adventure.
Discover, marvel and join in – Futurium has a varied children's programme surrounding the world of tomorrow. Age is irrelevant: in the exhibition, everyone can discover scenarios for the future independently They are some interesting family guided tours, for example, an interactive children's rally and a kids' audio guide to listen to. Or you can go all out and invent your own options for the future with exciting experiments in the Family Open Lab or in the holiday programme. And you can also learn a lot about possible futures from home: watch the YouTube series "Zick, Zack, Zukunft" or get your farm fit for the future in the farming game "Future Land".
Don't miss our interactive family quiz with Clarissa Corrêa da Silva. Speculate, laugh, and be amazed – this is where Futurium becomes a hotspot for future-minded fans who love to learn and solve riddles. It all centers around the question: What might our future look like—and who decides it? Experience surprising challenges, exciting experiments, creative team tasks, and plenty of eye-opening moments. The family interactive quiz is an entertaining show for children ages 6 to 12 and their adult companions.
Discovering futures
Discovering the future is exciting for young and old, because it is full of possibilities. The exhibition stimulates your curiosity as a family, encouraging you to think about new things and develop your own perspectives. In every vision of the day after tomorrow, there are opportunities to shape our world the way we want it to be.
And the exciting thing is: there is no such thing as "one" future: As many different futures are conceivable as there are human beings on the earth. Children can take a voyage of discovery with the family tours, the kids' rally and the kids' audio guide.
Guided Tours
Into the worlds of the future! Our guided tours introduce you to the highlights of the exhibition with its three areas of Human, Nature and Technology.
Public Family Tour (in German)
Our public family guided tour in German takes place every weekend: Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 to 12:30, Sunday additionally from 14:30 to 15:30. It is recommended for children from 6 years. You can book you family tour here. If you prefer an English-speaking tour, then our private group tours are the right choice for you.
Private Group Tour
How do we want to live in the future? Who hasn’t already asked themselves this question? After all, there’s no such thing as “one” future. Instead, there are as many possible and conceivable futures as there are people on Earth dreaming of tomorrow and the day after. The 60-minute tour conveys the themes of our exhibition in an easily understandable and entertaining way tailored towards the age of the participants. You can book your group tour here.
Kids’ Guide
Here’s something for your ears: with our audio guide for kids, your visit to Futurium is about to become even more of a multimedia experience. Nubi, our digital ghost, will be guiding all curious kids to ten very special points in the exhibition. He’ll cheerfully provide them with exciting information, let them solve tricky puzzles and take them on a visit to the other charming creatures living at Futurium.
Using the audio guides is as easy as it gets: log into the Wi-Fi with your smartphone, put on your headphones, scan the QR code – and off you go! Don't have your own smartphone? Then you can also borrow a device.
Children’s Rallye
Discovering futures on your own? Pick up our children's rallye booklet "Off to the Future" (available in English and German) at the information counter in the foyer and dive into Futurium! All you need is a pen and a curiosity for new things. Have fun with it!
Futurium
Inventing futures
Inventing futures means developing ideas, trying them out and experimenting. Everyone – both young and old – can play an active part in shaping our world through creativity and participation. In the Futurium lab and through the holiday programme for children, you can try your hand at some exciting experiments using methods from futurology and design, and develop prototypes together.
Family Open Lab
Every Sunday from 12:00–16:00, we offer our Family Open Lab. You can explore questions about the future at Futurium Lab and playfully learn about the technical basics in robotics, 3D printing, programming or laser cutting.
What awaits you:
- Ideas for the future of democracy. Use augmented reality and stickers to develop your ideas for living together tomorrow.
- Logistics of the future. You will think about future logistics solutions with small learning robots.
- 3D printing. Try out new production techniques when you make objects by hand or with our machines in the workshop.
- Raw materials of the future. You will learn what "urban mining" is and develop your own product ideas.
The workshop themes alternate, offer different levels of difficulty and are suitable for everyone aged 10 and over.
Our workshop mentors speak English. They will be happy to assist you with the experiments and workshop. Just drop by the Futurium Lab on Sundays between 12:00 and 16:00. The workshops take place in a drop-in format, which means you can join in at any time. Free entrance. You can find all dates in our event list!
Holiday programm
Feeling bored during the holidays? Not if you come to Futurium! In our three-day holiday workshop, you’ll learn about methods of futurology. You’ll explore the exhibition, conduct interviews, and develop your own future scenarios. And then you’ll bring your visions to life as prototypes. You’ll use various tools to do this, such as 3D printers and laser cutters. Finally, you’ll present your ideas and prototypes.
You can find the dates for the three-day holiday workshop in our event calendar.
Photo: Jan Windszus
Experience versions of the future
Learn more about possible future scenarios today and satisfy your curiosity about how the world of tomorrow might change: whether it's through the eyes of the kid reporters in the YouTube series or trying things out in the farming simulation – these online opportunities encourage children to explore the future in a playful way from home. They convey the idea that the future is an exciting opportunity that every child can help to shape consciously and independently.
YouTube Series “Fast, Forward, Future”
“Fast, Forward, Future” (“Zick, Zack, Zukunft”) is Futurium’s YouTube series with and for children. Should children be given the right to vote? How might our cities become more climate-friendly? Will we soon be relaxing on Mars? Young reporters ask Futurium’s experts their own questions on future-related topics: from robots and space travel to environmental protection. Five episodes, five topics of the future. Have a look!
Play and learn
As is the case in a real field, your hands are the best tools if you want to take your farming skills into the future in our brand-new farming game. But it's more difficult than you might think. You are constantly confronted with challenges, for which solutions need to be found. Work your way through the challenges, demonstrate how green your fingers really are and make your farm fit for the future. "Future Land" is suitable for children from the age of 0. (Only in German)
Database of Hopes
All over the world, people have ideas and wishes about what the future should look like. Explore the Database of Hopes to see how others envision the world of tomorrow. Or submit your own idea right now!
