The self-confessed Star Trek fan Markus Söder never has much time, firstly because he is very quick to grasp, and secondly because, as the Bavarian Prime Minister, he always has to be one step ahead of subjects and party friends.

But maybe that's a mistake when it comes to the future.

Hannes Hintermeier

Feuilleton correspondent for Bavaria and Austria.

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After all, it was Söder, then finance minister, who announced in 2016 that the Deutsches Museum would have a branch in Nuremberg with a focus on future technologies. With a considerable delay, but just before election Sunday, the house opened last weekend. However, there was no time for more than a quick run-through - Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet was in Nuremberg, the election campaign had priority over the future, which Söder can always make up for.

Anyway, he was annoyed by the skirmish that the opposition had instigated: They think that the rent of 2.5 million euros per year agreed with the investor Gerd Schmelzer and fixed for twenty-five years is much too high.

God knows, the father of the country had no time for such peanuts.

It remains to be seen whether he will have to take it when the Supreme Court of Auditors has finished its audit procedure.

At the opening, Söder gave the motto that science is always the future: “The Future Museum is a Stargate in the heart of the city!

Live long and prosper! "

The future will not come on quiet feet

The housing devised by Volker Staab - he also designed the Neues Museum and the Sebalder Höfe in Nuremberg - is, in light of the findings shown there, at the level of the building material old school: exposed concrete. In terms of design, Staab scores with large gestures in a small space, it grants great views of Pegnitz and the old town. A forum stretching over two floors with a grandstand welcomes the visitors, accented by blue light strips it goes along orientation grids in the floor through three floors. An app as an accompaniment is standard today, and there are also analog listeners at the wards.

Science meets fiction, scenes from science fiction films flicker on many of the walls. And so the future is not coming on quiet feet here, but is breaking out loudly. Five subject areas are on offer, from bottom to top these are “work and everyday life”, “body and mind”, “system city”, “system earth” and “space and time”. The concept was devised by Andreas Gundelwein from the mother ship Deutsches Museum in Munich, the house cost 27.6 million euros, and twenty-three jobs were created. A dozen student assistants are working as “F-Con”, as “future communicators”. The young adults approach the visitors, offer information and break down inhibitions, a welcome offer especially for older visitors.

Children and young people, who prefer to get stuck on the ground floor because they are not yet very interested in urban planning, conquer the interactive stations.

The seat of a spaceship captain who wants to dock on a space station is very popular;

Captain Kirk would have been delighted with the offspring.

At the end of the tour there is still a virtual journey through time.

The library with its science fiction classics seems almost antiquated.

Books, what was that again?