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RIYADH: The TeamLab Borderless Museum will open on June 10 as the first permanent museum of its kind in the Middle East.

The museum, a joint initiative of the Saudi Ministry of Culture and TeamLab, is located on the UNESCO World Heritage List, in the historic Al-Balad district of Jeddah.

The cooperation aims to develop infrastructure to increase the number of cultural exhibitions in the Kingdom.

This is one of the initiatives of the Quality of Life Program, which aims to develop Saudi Arabia’s contribution to art and culture.

The museum is a world of works of art without borders; a museum without a map created by the teamLab art collective. According to the Saudi Press Agency, its location in Jeddah covers an area of ​​approximately 10,000 sq m.

The concept of a “museum without borders” is based on the idea that in the mind the boundaries between different thoughts are ambiguous, which causes them to influence and sometimes blend with each other.

Works create connections and relationships with people, communicate with other works, influence each other, and sometimes interpenetrate.

The Athletics Forest located in the museum is an area intended to improve spatial perception by stimulating brain development. It encourages visitors to look at the world in three dimensions and take on physical challenges in a complex, interactive space.

Future Games City is an innovative educational initiative focusing on collaborative creativity, enabling individuals to participate in a fun city-building experience with others.

In the museum’s “Untitled” exhibition, large oval spheres, called ovoids, float in space, gradually sinking and constantly changing their shape. Their colors change and emit distinct tones when they are pushed or come into contact with objects, triggering a reaction from the surrounding oval balls, which change color and emit appropriate sounds in unison.

In the Sketch Ocean space, visitors can draw fish that will swim in the virtual ocean, joining other fish drawn by visitors. When touched, the fish swims away. Visitors can also feed the fish by interacting with the food bags on display.

Sometimes the fish leave the room and swim around the museum, crossing the boundaries between works of art.