Press Release 14 July 2022
One Million Visitors at Futurium
More than 1,000,000 people have visited Futurium since it opened in September 2019. Today, the House of Futures in Berlin is celebrating this milestone and thanking all its visitors with an action programme.
Located directly on the Spree, between Berlin’s main train station and the Reichstag building, Futurium has been welcoming visitors of all ages to engage with topics of the future since 5 September 2019. More than one million visitors from Berlin, Germany and the world have already accepted our invitation. They explored the exhibition with its three areas Human, Nature and Technology, developed their own ideas for the future in the Futurium Lab or exchanged ideas with researchers, artists and everyday heroes at events in the Forum. According to the current ranking of berlin.de, Futurium is one of Berlin’s five most visited museums.
This goes beyond our wildest dreams.
Futurium Director Dr Stefan Brandt is delighted: ”We’ve now crossed the one-million-visitors mark, even though we’ve been operating for less than three years, during most of which time there were lots of pandemic-related restrictions. This goes beyond our wildest dreams. Futurium is all about active engagement with topics of the future – our visitors’ main motivation is their interest in the content they can find here. The fact that this concept of science communication has aroused the curiosity of so many people fills us with a sense of both joy and duty.”
People from all over the world, have experienced real joy in exploring what we have to offer here.
Nicole Schneider, Commercial Director of Futurium, also appreciates the many visitors and people interested in the future. “I’m very pleased that in the nearly three years since we opened, we’ve been able to inspire so many people with our exhibition, the Lab and our programme of events. People of different origins and of all age groups, many from Berlin and Germany, but many too from all over the world, have experienced real joy in exploring what we have to offer here.”
To celebrate today’s special occasion, Futurium invites all its visitors to participate in free guided tours and listen to impulse talks on selected exhibits relating to the future. Today, the exhibition and Lab will be open to everyone until 20:00. Admission is free.
About Futurium’s associates
Futurium’s founding partners include, in addition to the Federal Republic of Germany (represented by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. – DAAD), the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e.V. – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), acatech – German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech – Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften e.V.), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for the Promotion of Applied Sciences (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.), the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V.), the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.) the Leibniz Association (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz), BASF SE, Bayer AG, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG, Siemens AG, Infineon Technologies AG and the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung.