The Museum of Tomorrow (Museu do Amanhã) and Visions2030 announce the international debut of The Lumisphere Experience™, a landmark immersive installation and reimagination lab designed to mobilize one billion people by 2030 by asking them, “What do you want the future to look like?,” and inviting them to envision their ideal eco-future. Free and open to all on the plaza of the Santiago Calatrava–designed Museum of Tomorrow in Porto Maravilha, Rio de Janeiro, the Lumisphere Experience runs through December 19, 2025.
Conceived as a transformative space to dream without limitation, the Lumisphere Experience invites visitors to step inside three interconnected Buckminster Fuller–inspired domes spanning 8,000 square feet. The multi-sensory environment, with 360° spectacular projections, surround sound, and interactive storytelling inspires awe and sparks new perspectives. Hands-on technology allows participants to turn visions into vivid nine-foot-high images on LED screens. A post-Lumisphere interaction encourages them to connect those visions to real-world solutions.
“So often we deal with climate in terms of fear, imagining the worst,” said Carey Lovelace, Founder of Visions2030. “The Lumisphere presents possibilities and allows people to imagine a positive future. This is a new approach to climate action that delights rather than lectures.”
Coinciding with Brazil’s hosting of COP30 in Belém (November 10–21, 2025) and The Earthshot Prize ceremony (November 5, 2025) at the Museum of Tomorrow, the Lumisphere Experience in Rio marks the first stop on a five-year global tour.
“The Lumisphere Experience is a meditative and almost-psychedelic exercise in futures literacy,” said Fabio Rubio Scarano, Curator of the Museum of Tomorrow and UNESCO Chair on Planetary Wellbeing. “It expands imagination, which is essential to activating hope and spurring transformative action.”
Co-designed with San Francisco’s Minds Over Matter studio, the Lumisphere Experience has a research partnership with the Institute for the Future (IFTF), tracking the Lumisphere’s impact on a sense of empowerment. The research will measure what IFTF calls urgent optimism—the ability to remain hopeful, motivated, and engaged even in the face of significant global challenges.
The Lumisphere Experience
October 2 – December 19, 2025
The Museum of Tomorrow, Praça Mauá 1, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Admission Free
www.thelumisphere.earth
