Museum of Lost Futures
The Museum of Lost Futures is an immersive experience about abolitionist futures, reproductive justice, and haunting.
Update: After our relaunch at Multiplatform 2025, The Museum of Lost Futures is now able to pop up at venues with lower budgets as The Ritual of Rebinding. Get in touch with us if you're interested in hosting a pop up of the Museum.
If you're interesting in hearing about how we can support academics to use games for research, engagement, and impact, you can find out more here.
As all good temporal archaeologists will know, the Museum of Lost Futures exists outside of time and space and moves from place to place, showing up in the places it's most needed. It’s a museum filled with objects from lost futures and possible histories, things outside of time, existing orthogonally to our current timeline.
Visitors to the Museum of Lost Futures will be given the opportunity to connect with an object from the Museum's collection and use this to explore their own personal timeline, sliding door moments and lost futures. By visiting the Museum, you'll develop your futureweaving skills, helping you to harness raw possibility as you shape our collective future.
The Museum of Lost Futures: The Ritual of Rebinding is an immersive play experience about lost futures for any number of players.
In its initial run, the Museum of Lost Futures focused on abolitionist futures, reproductive justice, and haunting. Taking the form of a museum outside of space and time, the Museum of Lost Futures guided two participants at a time through encounters with objects from possible futures and alternative histories, and the stories stories from the people attached to those objects. This leads into conversations about our desires for the future, what haunts us, and what chains us in our lives.
The files below will give you a taste of what the original experience was like.
We're working on a portable game version of the Museum right now, so check back in the future for an experience you can try.
A selection of objects that we designed for the Museum of Lost Futures.
About the downloads
The downloads above contain some images of the Museum, the audio files that played throughout the Museum, and some supplementary materials that might help you get to grips with what being at the Museum was like.
Credit
The Museum of Lost Futures was developed by Kieran Cutting and Dr Mwenza Blell.
License
CC-BY-SA
