Cosmic Millennia Sky Charts for the Next 100,000 Years

In this exhibition, the Museum of Tomorrow and Tellart present canvases of the coming cosmic millennia with an artistic touch. In a blend of craftsmanship and science, a robot used hot beeswax to create ten celestial charts of the North Pole over the next hundred thousand years on small pieces of cotton fabric. A hybrid experience between the new and the old, the robotic and the human.

Today's constellations are quite different from the patterns our ancestors saw; and they will be completely different thousands of years from now. Something imperceptible to the naked eye. This is the theme of the new exhibition "Cosmic Millennia: Sky Charts for the Next 100,000 Years," which opens on January 17th at the Museum of Tomorrow. The exhibition, which runs until May 7th, was inspired by research into future scenarios using data from sky charts.

In this exhibition, the Museum of Tomorrow and the Tellart present canvases of the coming cosmic millennia with an artistic touch. In a blend of craftsmanship and science, a robot drew, with hot beeswax, ten celestial charts seen from the North Pole over the next hundred thousand years on small pieces of cotton fabric. A hybrid experience between the new and the old, the robotic and the human.

"The exhibition directly aligns with the Museum's core purpose, which is to showcase the possible 'tomorrows' of our planet, which are not static. In the case of constellations, they move constantly, in their own time," summarizes Leonardo Menezes, Exhibition Manager at the Museum of Tomorrow.