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The Trustees of the British Museum
British Museum Western Range Competition to find an Architect-Led Design Team
Historical: no longer open for bids.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £22,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Fri 21 Jun 2024, 12:00 BSTClosed.
- Published
- 8 May 2024
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
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.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 92521100
- 71320000
- 71311000
- 71200000
- 71321000
- 71312000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
2 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 8 May 2024Tender notice
Tender notice published 8 May 2024.
Deadline in this release: Fri 21 Jun 2024, 12:00 BST.
Release 014691-2024
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 10 Oct 2025Award notice
Award notice published 10 October 2025. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 064130-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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- Stage
- tender · Open
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 14:25 BST
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- Fri 23 Oct 2026, 06:54 BST
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