Winning team for the British Museum’s Western Range redesign announced

Purcell will support Lina Ghotmeh Architects as executive and conservation architects on the project to redesign the British Museum's Western Range.

The redesign of the Western Range, encompassing the museum‘s galleries to the west of the Great Court, will be one of the biggest cultural renovation projects undertaken anywhere in the world. The project will transform the museum‘s visitor experience as well as creating new spaces for the museum‘s collections.

The Western Range includes all the galleries to the west of the Great Court, housing the museum’s greatest objects from ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, Rome, Assyria and the Middle East. The museum is now embarking on the biggest renovation project in their history – rebuilding and restoring the Western Range Galleries to make them suitable for the 21st century. The project also involves rethinking how the museum collection is presented, to encourage us all to think creatively and critically about the connections and contrasts between and across cultures.