Design Inaugural Exhibitions for Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino

The Smithsonian Institution is seeking a contractor to design the inaugural exhibitions for the National Museum of the American Latino. The contractor must have experience designing multimillion-dollar museum exhibition experiences and demonstrate the capacity to work with a diverse group of personnel. The minimum requirement includes designing exhibitions for at least three complete museum or complex museum exhibits that integrated objects, images, and multimedia, with a total exhibition footprint of at least 35,000 sq./ft. and at least one example larger than 45,000 sq./ft. • The contractor must provide a technical proposal outlining their approach to the project, including exhibition footprint, design considerations, and A/E services. • The contractor must engage architects and engineers registered in the District of Columbia to oversee all architecture and engineering design and construction work specific to the exhibitions. • The contractor must demonstrate their capacity to design a multimillion-dollar museum exhibition experience of similar size and scope as the NMAL exhibits intend to be. • The contractor must have worked with a diverse group of personnel, such as content developers, architects, curators, scientists, educators, exhibition evaluators, design coordinators, writers, collections managers, facility managers, engineers, media producers, museum technical staff, and exhibit fabricators.