Touring Exhibition Design and Build Supplier, National Memorial Arboretum

Going Places is an Art Fund programme made possible with generous support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Julia Rausing Trust. It is an ambitious UK-wide programme, designed to engage and involve underrepresented audiences with museum collections through high quality, collaborative touring exhibitions and public programmes.

Focusing on the importance of the great outdoors, the Green Spaces, Shared Places network will explore the positive impact that nature and the outdoors can have on mental and physical health, and the ways in which our interactions with outdoor spaces can be transformed and enriched by our social, industrial and agricultural heritage. Oral testimonies will be collected through intergenerational interviews, capturing lived experiences of these places and landscapes, and young communities' voices will be at the heart of the conversation, making the huge issues of climate change, environmental sustainability, unequal access to green spaces and food production feel tangible and relevant.

We are looking to appoint an agency to design our project's brand, as well as to develop, design and build the physical indoor and outdoor elements - and to scope out and plan the install and deinstall of - the network's first exhibition at each partner venue from 2026 to 2027. This first exhibition launches at the Arboretum on 16th May 2026.

The supplier will need to work alongside the network of partners and young people to develop the assets and designs for the exhibition build. It is important that the exhibition is able to create a tangible connection between the indoor and outdoor spaces at display venues, supporting a cohesive visitor journey and maintaining a strong link to themes of outdoor heritage and environmental sustainability in its look and feel.

The total fee available for this work is £70,769.00 including VAT.