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The Trustees of the British Museum

British Museum Western Range Competition to find an Architect-Led Design Team

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71200000
Value£28.3m
Awarded10 Sept 2025
Published10 Oct 2025
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£28.3mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£30.5m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Please note this is a Contract Award Notice to announce the conclusion of the procurement it is not a new opportunity.

The British Museum is delighted to launch this international competition to choose a visionary, architect-led design team to work with the Museum to develop an extraordinary design for a significant part of its Bloomsbury site: The Western Range.

This is an important commission to re-envisage and transform key parts of the main, iconic site in Bloomsbury.

This will be the Museum's biggest building project since the 1820s, when work commenced on the original quadrangle.

The ambition is significant: to restore the Western Range and, in so doing, reimagine a third of the existing gallery area, deliver improved collections storage and create new amenities to enhance the visitor experience, making the collection as accessible as possible to all the Museum's audiences.

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The ambition is significant: to restore

The ambition is significant: to restore the Western Range and, in so doing, reimagine a third of the existing gallery area, deliver improved collections storage and create new amenities to enhance the visitor experience, making the collection as accessible as possible to all the Museum's audiences.

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