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The inventor Ernő Rubik announced the plan after the government allocated 200 million forints in support for the exhibition. The show is still in the planning stages, but it is hoped graphic work can get underway next year, he added.
The exhibition is expected to travel to several big cities in North America before going to South America, Asia and winding up in Europe. The exhibition?s final home will be in a new museum in Budapest that pays homage to Hungarian invention and is shaped like a Rubik?s Cube.
Among the highlights of the exhibition will be a gem-studded Rubik?s Cube created by Fred Cuellar, founder of Diamond Cutters International. It is one of many interpretations of the cube in materials as varied as Lego, ice, matchsticks and sweets.
Although countries have come and gone in the last 40 years, technology has developed at a breakneck pace, and many other changes have taken place, the Rubik?s Cube has always found its own audience, Rubik said.
Rubik said the cube was first intended to teach students about viewing planes, but he ?discovered?, rather than invented, its numerous other hidden possibilities.
More than 300 million Rubik?s Cubes have been produced in the past 40 years.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
