Science Museum Collection Facility

The Science Museum Group has created an innovative collection management facility at the Science and Innovation Park in Wiltshire. Much of the Science Museum Group Collection is now housed in a sector-leading hub for collections management, research, scholarship and public engagement. Around 300,000 objects were moved from their previous home in London into this new facility.

The new facility is 90m wide and 300m long, equivalent in size to 600 double-decker buses. It features conservation laboratories, research areas and photography studios alongside a vast storage hall with a staggering 30,000 metres of shelving for the collection. Designed by architects GWPA and constructed by Kier, sustainability is at the heart of the new facility. The highly insulated and extremely airtight design allows the stringent environmental conditions needed for the collection to be maintained with minimal energy use.

Equals acted as client side project managers on the design, construction and fit-out of the project. We also provided programme management to co-ordinate the various work streams.

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