The future awaits you

Located in the heart of Nuremberg’s historic city center, Deutsches Museum Nuremberg – the Museum of the Future explores what our lives could look like in the decades to come. As one of only five Museum of the Futures worldwide, it brings together prototypes and insights from leading-edge research alongside realistic future scenarios across three levels in an interactive exhibition.

Five thematic areas guide visitors into the future of work and everyday life, explore the connection between body and technology, examine smart cities and new mobility, shed light on the global climate, and provide insights into space exploration.

Highlights include a driving simulator for autonomous vehicles, a quantum computer, and several humanoid robots. At interactive stations, visitors experience how online communication influences the real world. The exhibition demonstrates how digital platforms, algorithms, and artificial intelligence amplify information—and how misinformation can spread rapidly. Museum of the Future EXTENDED expands the exhibition with XR and VR experiences such as a virtual moonwalk and immersive scenarios set in cities, laboratories, and speculative worlds.

Many exhibits originate from current cutting-edge research. New medical procedures, bio-implants, and exoskeletons illustrate how closely technology and the human body may be intertwined in the future—while encouraging critical reflection on these developments.

In the learning lab, future technologies become tangible: visitors experiment with DNA, explore sustainable energy sources such as hydrogen, or design their own objects using 3D printing. The focus is not on the final product, but on understanding, questioning, and contextualizing technological possibilities.

Deutsches Museum Nuremberg – the Museum of the Future presents future technologies in a vivid and interactive way. It invites visitors to join the discussion about what the world of tomorrow should look like. Unlike historically oriented museums, it looks ahead—highlighting technologies and ideas that will shape our lives and examining their societal impact.

The large museum shop offers inspiring products that convey knowledge in engaging ways. In the ShopCafé, an automated system prepares specialty coffee.