The exhibition will have fun HMS Challenger’s well-known nineteenth century voyage and spotlight the Royal Navy’s scientific endeavours.
The Nationwide Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) has launched a young for the design of a brief exhibition at its Portsmouth web site, in addition to a smaller scale exhibition at its Hartlepool web site.
The over-arching intention of the exhibition shall be to showcase objects and interactives primarily based on HMS Challenger’s well-known voyage of 1872-6, with linked content material displayed at NMRN Hartlepool.
This was the primary oceanographic expedition organized particularly to assemble knowledge on a variety of ocean options, from seawater chemistry and currents, to marine life and the geology of the seafloor. Whereas being vibrant and interesting, the exhibition also needs to spotlight the Royal Navy’s dedication to “science at sea”, within the context of the Challenger legacy, in keeping with the tender specification necessities.
Although the smaller Hartlepool exhibition will fall underneath the identical main theme – World Beneath the Waves – it should focus extra on the HMS Trincomalee’s story of circumnavigation. The HMS Trincomalee remains to be afloat and open to guests on the positioning.
5 key themes – discoveries, know-how, human tales, legacy and environmental issues, and hands-on – must be thought-about in the course of the design section and mirrored within the closing output. Core outputs from the venture will embrace the short-term exhibition on the Portsmouth web site, provisions for legacy packages for colleges/studying and provisions for programming actions which is able to entice younger individuals, particularly ladies and ladies, to STEM careers.
There also needs to be examples of audio-visual materials and modern digital and bodily interactive and everlasting digital content material for the NMRN web site.
The intention of the exhibition is to commemorate the historic voyage of the HMS Challenger and its contributions to oceanographic science whereas additionally showcasing the modern-day function of the Royal Navy, which entails supporting science at sea and mapping the ocean ground. It also needs to search to encourage guests to search out out extra about Royal Navy exploration and careers in science.
Explaining how the ocean is vital to understanding our altering planet is one other key intention. Elements of the exhibition ought to define the Royal Navy’s present local weather science work and up to date analysis findings in regards to the altering local weather.
The exhibition tender will comprise of Section 1 (Design) and Section 2 (Handle), with a break between them. The NMRN has deliberate a price range of £28,000 for Section 1, which covers RIBA phases 1-4 (preparation and briefing, idea design, spatial coordination, and technical design).
The ultimate budgetary estimate for finishing the venture – together with manufacturing – mustn’t exceed £195,000. NMRN Hartlepool must be a part of any full price proposals.
The proposed house for the exhibition is a 120sqm house within the museum’s Storehouse 10 Galleries, which sits inside a refurbished eighteenth-century storehouse. It includes six Kub2 partitions that may be reconfigured to change show space and direct customer move, fastened wall panels round fringe of house, seven evolution demountable showcases which might be reconfigured in quite a lot of mixtures, vista circumstances and a Harmony Muse LED monitor mounted spot lighting system.
The cut-off date for functions is 12pm on 25 November 2022. The chosen studio can anticipate the contract to begin on 9 December 2022 and run till 31 July 2023.
The proposed opening date for the exhibition is 24 June 2023, after which it should run for one 12 months.
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