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The 8,000 sq ft gallery is located on the lower ground floor of the Science and Industry Museum’s grade two-listed New Warehouse.
Funded largely by a £3.8m grant from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the £5m project is the first element of long-term strategy by the museum – known as Mosi – to restore its historic estate.
Designed by architectural practice Carmody Groarke, work to create the Special Exhibitions Gallery was carried out by contractor HH Smith & Sons.
Mosi director Sally MacDonald said: “This year has brought home to all of us how fundamentally science shapes our lives. As we all rebuild personally, socially and culturally, and look forward to better things in 2021, we can’t wait to share this new exhibition space.”
Carmody Groarke reveals first images of Manchester science museum gallery
11 March 2021 By Fran Williams. Photography by Gilbert McCarragher
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The first photographs of Carmody Groarke’s temporary exhibitions gallery for Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum have been released
Carmody Groarke won the go-ahead for the new £5 million temporary exhibitions gallery in 2016 after landing the job in November 2015, having beaten HAT Projects, Reiach and Hall, John McAslan & Partners, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Adam Richards.
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Originally planned to complete by the end of 2018, the 725m² project aims to create an ‘outstanding architectural space for temporary exhibitions’ within railway arches and lower ground floor vaults of an 1830 Grade II-listed New Warehouse.
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Some of the world s best science exhibits to be hosted at Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester Date published: 10 March 2021
Entrance to new MOSI Gallery from the lower yard
A spectacular new 725 metre square flexible gallery is now complete and ready to originate and host some of the world’s best science exhibitions and experiences in the North, thanks to a generous £3.8 million grant.
Designed by award-winning architectural practice Carmody Groarke, working alongside Manchester building contractor HH Smith & Sons, the transformation of the lower ground floor of the museum’s Grade II listed New Warehouse reveals grand industrial beauty with stunning modern and sustainable design.