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Science Museum Group

Wonderlab Interactive Exhibit Makers (Group 1), The Science and Industry Museum

Recreation & CultureCPV 92521100
Value£425k
Deadline13 Jul 2026
Published2 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 2 Jul 20260 days leftCloses 13 Jul 2026
Who to contact
Catherine Mak
catherine.mak@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£425ktotal contract value
median £75k
this tender£0£2.1m

This is a large award for Recreation, Culture & Sport — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 3,522 valued Recreation, Culture & Sport tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Science and Industry Museum’s new Wonderlab gallery will be a vibrant, awe-inspiring spectacle at the heart of the world’s first industrial city.

Dynamic, social and multisensory, it will celebrate the wonder of science and invite everyone to unleash their inner inventor.

Drawing on Manchester’s unparalleled heritage of innovation, the gallery will excite and challenge young minds to help inspire the next generation of scientists and inventors.

Children and their accompanying adults will be encouraged to ‘Think and act like an inventor’, through curious, fun and memorable interactive experiences and a multifaceted, joyful and stimulating live programme.

They will deepen their understanding of science phenomena, delight in tinkering and testing, develop new and existing skills and grow in confidence to question and explore.

As a core permanent gallery offer, the new space will be an integral part of the Science and Industry Museum’s vision and Masterplan.

The gallery floor and purpose-built spaces for live programme will create welcoming, playful and inspiring environment, creating the perfect backdrop for visitors to imagine, investigate and reflect.

This tender invites suppliers to bid for Wonderlab’s Group 1 interactives, informally described as the “Hero exhibits”.

These interactive exhibits will provide moments of joy, fun, surprise and wonder at regular intervals throughout the visitor journey.

They will offer communal ‘wow’ moments, where large groups can engage and interact, while being surprised and impressed by the scale, novelty and working of the interactive.

For more information, please see the tender documents.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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These interactive exhibits will provide moments

These interactive exhibits will provide moments of joy, fun, surprise and wonder at regular intervals throughout the visitor journey.

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