Remodelling of key museum buildings at the National Coal Mining Museum for England

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Description

The National Coal Mining Museum for England are looking to appoint a combined Architecture & Museum Design team, comprising multiple specialisms, to carry out a feasibility study and options appraisal on the remodelling of 'The Hub' core building at the National Coal Mining Museum, including its curtilage, into a transformed national museum complex, and associated potential adaption of nearby buildings and spaces to create a new Learning & Community Centre and new staff accommodation. The exercise is expected to create concept designs and costings, to RIBA 2, on a scheme that will have transformational impact on the role that the core building and associated buildings play in the future of the Museum, including extended galleries, extended café-restaurant, effective arrival and orientation space, boosted retail area, reconfigured event and commercial spaces, including extending adjacent research library, a best-practice learning and community centre, improved and consolidated staff accommodation, and create an exemplary and intuitive visitor flow and experience.

CPV Codes

• 71200000 - Architectural and related services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.

Other Information

All enquiries should be sent to Dr John Tanner, Head of Masterplan & Capital Projects, National Coal Mining Museum for England, Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 4RH. Please use the following email address john.tanner@ncm.org.uk