Five architectural teams have been selected to take part in the final stage of a design competition to redesign galleries at the British Museum in London. The international competition received more than 60 applications from across the world in its first stage. The design entries, which will go on display in the museum’s Round Reading Room from December.
A judging panel will select the winning team early in 2025 – this team will then work with British Museum staff to develop designs for the Western Range of galleries with a brief to “respond to the museum’s sensitive historic buildings, ambitious decarbonisation plans and the ongoing process of reimagining the display and care of collections”.
The Western Range includes galleries on the western side of the museum that collectively make up a third of the British Museum’s gallery space, and house high-profile parts of the collection such as the Parthenon Sculptures as well as objects from Ancient Egypt and the Middle East.
Eleni Cubitt, founding member of BCRPM at the British Museum, photographed by Nana Varveropoulou for LIFO Magazine in November 2009 .
