FTS UK public procurement

Wonderlab Interactive Exhibit Makers (Group 1), The Science and Industry Museum

Science Museum Group

CompleteOCDS ID ocds-h6vhtk-06b846
Tender value£425,0005 awards · 0 contracts

01 Procurement

Tender overview

Updated 3 August 2026
Buyer
Science Museum Group
Status
Complete
Procurement method
Open procedure
Category
services
CPV classification
Not supplied
Tender period
Not supplied — 13 July 2026

Description

The Science and Industry Museum’s new Wonderlab gallery will be a vibrant, awe-inspiring spectacle at the heart of the world’s first industrial city. Dynamic, social and multisensory, it will celebrate the wonder of science and invite everyone to unleash their inner inventor. Drawing on Manchester’s unparalleled heritage of innovation, the gallery will excite and challenge young minds to help inspire the next generation of scientists and inventors. Children and their accompanying adults will be encouraged to ‘Think and act like an inventor’, through curious, fun and memorable interactive experiences and a multifaceted, joyful and stimulating live programme. They will deepen their understanding of science phenomena, delight in tinkering and testing, develop new and existing skills and grow in confidence to question and explore. As a core permanent gallery offer, the new space will be an integral part of the Science and Industry Museum’s vision and Masterplan. The gallery floor and purpose-built spaces for live programme will create welcoming, playful and inspiring environment, creating the perfect backdrop for visitors to imagine, investigate and reflect. This tender invites suppliers to bid for Wonderlab’s Group 1 interactives, informally described as the “Hero exhibits”. These interactive exhibits will provide moments of joy, fun, surprise and wonder at regular intervals throughout the visitor journey. They will offer communal ‘wow’ moments, where large groups can engage and interact, while being surprised and impressed by the scale, novelty and working of the interactive. For more information, please see the tender documents.

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02 Awards and contracts

Published award records

5 shown
Pending

Manchester Machine

Awarded
2 August 2026
Award value
£180,000
Suppliers
1
Signed contract
Not supplied
Pending

Digital Loom

Awarded
2 August 2026
Award value
£50,000
Suppliers
1
Signed contract
Not supplied
Pending

Loco Race

Awarded
2 August 2026
Award value
£48,000
Suppliers
1
Signed contract
Not supplied
Pending

Cogs, Pulleys, Levers

Awarded
2 August 2026
Award value
£35,000
Suppliers
1
Signed contract
Not supplied
Pending

Whirlwind Room

Awarded
2 August 2026
Award value
£120,000
Suppliers
1
Signed contract
Not supplied

03 Organisations

Buyers, suppliers and other parties

2 parties
Buyer

Science Museum Group

The Science Museum, London, UKI33, SW7 2DD, United Kingdom

GB-PPON PDTR-3338-MNPG
Supplier

Hüttinger Interactive Exhibitions

Mittelbügweg 90, Schwaig, DE, 90571, Germany

GB-PPON PVXX-2139-LCWN

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04 Provenance

Source for this process

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