Brooklands Museum - Exhibition Fit Out Contractor

Brooklands Museum is inviting tenders from experienced Exhibition Fit Out Contractors for its major new project, the Brooklands Aircraft Factory and Race Track Revival project.

The project which will see the creation of a new Aircraft Factory visitor experience in the Museum's conserved World War 2 Bellman Hangar. The exhibition will have a very strong emphasis on authenticity and interactivity and will showcase aircraft, aircraft components and other objects from the Museum's collection.

The project also includes the erection of a two storey Flight Shed to house the Museum's live aircraft and associated exhibition elements. In addition, the iconic Finishing Straight of the iconic Brooklands race track will be reinstated and new exhibition elements will give visitors a sense of the race track in its heyday.

The scope of the appointment covers exhibition fit out including setworks, metalwork, specialist joinery, graphics production, mounts (incl mannequins), second fix exhibition-specific M&E, showcases, lighting, AV hardware installation. Separate contracts have, or will be, let for mechanical interactives, AV software/media and illustration.

The Exhibition Designer for the project is Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the Project Manager is Focus Consultants and the Quantity Surveyor is IKS Consulting.

The Aircraft Factory Experience, Flight Shed and Finishing Straight are due to open in summer 2017 and the exhibition must be installed, tested and snagged in time for the opening.

All Invitation to Tender documentation can be downloaded from the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fcvy663brb6mern/AABxO9EHaebsCref9QXDg3w-a?dl=0