Carl Nielsen Museum - Main Exhibition Fitout

Description

Odense Bys Museer; the Client, has appointed Event Communications Ltd. (Event) to redesign the displays at The Carl Nielsen Museet (Carl Nielsen Museum) which comprise approximately 400sqm of gallery space spread across two floors, for a practical completion date of December 2022 and public opening date of March 2023. The new displays are being procured under a single package; the Main Exhibition Fitout package under a direct appointment to Odense Bys Museer on behalf of the Carl Nielsen Museum (CNM). This package of works covers; • Exhibition setwork • Wiring & electrical • Exhibition lighting • Showcases including incase lighting, incase fittings & mounts • AV Hardware • Models & Props • Graphic artwork & production Lot 1: In October 2020, Odense Bys Museer; the Client, appointed Event Communications Ltd. (Event) to redesign the displays at the museum which comprise approximately 400sqm of gallery space spread across two floors, for an opening date of March 2023. In order to facilitate the new displays, the museum is undertaking a modest package of building works prior to the commencement of exhibition fitout. This includes removal of existing displays, alterations to existing internal walls, repairs and redecoration, provision of additional power and data points and new flooring throughout the public spaces. The new Nielsen Museum is not a typical biographical museum. Here, music is the way in to finding out about a person, not the other way around. The new Museum is rich in audio and audio-visual displays. Light is used as a visual language to represent Nielsen’s life and energy. A large-scale lighting sculpture weaves it’s way around the museum, guiding and interacting with visitors as they engage in stories and interact with content. The displays on the 1st floor where visitors uncover Nielsen’s life story are envisaged as ‘fragments’ representing Nielsen’s outputs. These fragments use timber cabinets and frames as a design language which support showcases, media, models and interactive displays. The climax of the museum is an immersive theatre on the ground floor; a sensory space where visitors are bathed in light and sound. Apart from lighting, there are no visual cues, no imagery, no text. Instead, visitors encounter the purest sound experience of the journey. They can sit (or lie) back and absorb themselves in Nielsen’s music. Visitors leave with a new understanding of what Nielsen’s music can do. They feel awakened and inspired to fill their lives with more music. The visitor experience is accompanied by a printed guide and digital app, that fall outside the scope of this contract. The new displays are being procured under a single package; the Main Exhibition Fitout package under a direct appointment to Odense Bys Museer on behalf of the Carl Nielsen Museum (CNM). This package of works covers; • Exhibition setwork • Wiring & electrical • Exhibition lighting • Showcases including incase lighting, incase fittings & mounts • AV Hardware • Models & props • Graphic artwork & production The scope of the Main Exhibition Fitout contract includes; • Exhibition setwork – including joinery, projection screens, supports for suspended equipment/displays • Wiring & electrical – cabling from power points local to the displays through setwork to exhibition equipment and lighting • Exhibition lighting – purchase and installation of new exhibition lighting • Showcases – showcase base which continues the timber cabinet design language, incase lighting, fittings & mounts • AV Hardware – AV system design/engineering, procurement and installation to deliver a complete show control solution • Models & props – props – specialist models, mechanical models and props • Graphic artwork & production – creation of production ready graphic artwork, production and installation of the exhibition graphics