Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks
Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

Museum Futurium Berlin

The light for tomorrow

mawa is occupied with the future of lighting – the Futurium in Berlin is occupied with the future of our lives.
Together, they form a successful symbioses in a rather peculiar exhibition hall.
More than 500 spotlights from mawa illuminate the spaces, objects, and installations in the house of the future which opened in September, 2019.

Situated on the banks of the Spree River, between the main train station and the Reichstag building, the Futurium houses exhibits, a laboratory, and an event forum. The main focus lies with the exchange of scientific, technological, and societal developments. Here, one can find answers to the questions regarding our future – for free, in fact, during the test phase lasting until the end of 2022.
»seventies plus« specifically tailored for museums. The powerful and efficient lighting tool easily serves the tall and dimlit room design of the Futurium.  Modular lighting construction and extensive accessories enable easy revision and extension of light-modelling components. When adapted for track systems, the spotlights are repositionable.

Architect / Interior Designer

RICHTER MUSIKOWSKI Architekten PartGmbB, Berlin

Project Developer and Client

Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben

Lighting design

Jan und Tim Edler
Daniel Slota
Raphael Kirsch
Christian Riekoff
Jan Dinnebier

Electrical Planning

BAUR & GUT GmbH, Bad Schussenried

Photography

Stefan Wolf Lucks

Scope of services

107 × seventies Contact Track Spotlight with Eutrac InTrac-Adapter (se-11-4-9005), LED, 26 W, DALI, mawa 9005 black dull matt

32 × seventies Contact Track Spotlight with Eutrac InTrac-Adapter (se-11-4-9016), LED, 26 W, DALI, RAL 9016 white matt

61 × seventies Contact Track Spotlight with Eutrac InTrac-Adapter (se-11-9-9005), LED, 26 W, CASAMBI, mawa 9005 black dull matt

230 × seventies plus Contact Track Spotlight with Eutrac InTrac-Adapter (seP-11-d1-9005), LED, 34 W, DALI, mawa 9005 black dull matt

162 × seventies plus Contact Track Spotlight with Eutrac InTrac-Adapter (seP-11-d2-9005), LED, 37 W, DALI, mawa 9005 black dull matt

24 × wittenberg 4.0 Recessed Spotlight (wi4-eb-1r-db-9005), LED, 12,7 W, Honeycomb (wi4-wa-s), mawa 9005 black dull matt

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks
Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks | Museum Futurium Berlin

The exhibition area on the upper floor is divided into three large thinking spaces as a continuous area of around 3,000 square metres. A large glass surface offers spectacular views and places the exhibition in the context of the current urban space.

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

One of the galleries suspended from the roof structure without supports, with seventies track spotlight se-11-4-9016 in Eutrac in-trac adapter in RAL 9016 white matt.

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

seventies plus track-mounted spotlight seP-11-d1-9005–shown here with Eutrac in-trac adapter in mawa 9005 black dull matt–is the specialist for museums and suitable for heights up to 9 m above the respective reference surface.

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks | Museum Futurium Berlin
Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

The exhibition in one of the thinking rooms below the galleries suspended from the roof structure is illuminated by seventies track spotlights se-11-4-9005 with Eutrac in-trac adapters, here in mawa 9005 black dull matt.

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks

Dull matt black seventies track spots se-11-9-9005 are installed on the dark-coloured exposed concrete of the ceiling grid in the basement.

The Futurium meets the standard of a low-energy house, all mawa luminaires are equipped with the latest LED standard.

Photo: Stefan Wolf Lucks | Museum Futurium Berlin