British Museum Western Range: Eric Parry Architects with Jamie Fobert Architects

This important moment in the British Museum’s history will have our unflinching commitment. We bring a design team of the highest calibre, who can fulfil the scale and ambition of the museum’s vision.    

We propose a realisation of the British Museum’s full potential as the world’s museum of one humanity. 

Breaking open floor plates and peeling back walls allows a newfound freedom of movement. Basement vaults reach up to the top galleries, creating a new hierarchy of scale. 

New light and volume honour the artefacts. The buried Robert Smirke architecture will finally have the space to breathe again. 

Narratives traverse cultures and times, encouraging non-linear interpretation of objects, giving visitors agency to tell their own stories, to engage and reflect.