Science isn’t just about test tubes and vials, microscopes and labs. Science is also about art. It is about startling short films enveloping you on all sides within a 360˚dome screen, exploring the stars and the origins of life on earth. It is about creative displays of photography, a collage of images representing what the earth was and what the earth is at the moment. It is about playing with the setting and recreating the homes of a people far away such as the Australian Tjurunga to understand how we’ve always interacted with the nature around us and the different phenomenon we’ve always experienced but never noticed. Science is about thinking out of the box. It is about picturing the future.

This just happens to be what you can expect at the Museu do Amanha, or Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro. This isn’t a whacky take on Back to the Future but to explore sustainability and the environmental changes we’re likely to see in the coming decades. Through activities and interactions with museum educators, historians, scientists and architects, this 200m hallway will bring you from past to future on how we have changed Earth. Through 27 experiments or 27 unorthodox expressions of art, Museu do Amanha brings together the most unlikely combinations such as the stars and the forests of Guanabara.