Museum Transport

Tender description

The Atkinson is the principal arts venue for the borough of Sefton. As well as an Art Gallery the building houses an Egyptology Gallery, and a Social History Museum The venue also provides Theatre and Cinema spaces, a Cafe and Shop, as well as housing Southport’s main Library. The Art Gallery reopened in September 2013 following a major capital refurbishment project. We now have four climate-controlled exhibition galleries for the display of our permanent collections and external touring exhibitions. Many of our exhibitions are drawn from our permanent collections of fine art, social history, Egyptology and natural history, supplemented by loans from across the North West region as well as galleries and private collectors further afield. The Council expects this contract’s annual value to be a maximum of approximately £10,000, however this will clearly be dependent upon operational activity through the year. Most loans are made within the north of England with occasional loans from lenders in London or other UK destinations such as the Arts Council or National galleries of Scotland. With reference to the scope of the requirement, there will be about four exhibition changeover periods per year, plus occasional, ad hoc collections. Keywords: museum, transport, art, exhibition