The competition to design the V&A at Dundee attracted entries from some of the world’s leading architects.
Now Dundee City Council is seeking an architect or designer with “experience and vision” to ensure its permanent galleries live up to Kengo Kuma’s design for the £80.1 million museum.
The museum will boast four galleries in all, two of which will be known as the Scottish Design Galleries and will tell the story of Scottish design from the 18th century to the present day.
They will feature around 250 objects from the V&A’s own collections, which contain more than 12,000 Scottish objects, along with items on loan from collections across Scotland and internationally.
The displays will span a range of disciplines from furniture to fashion, architecture and the built environment, to service and digital design.
According to the advert on Public Contracts Scotland, the successful designer must “have the experience and vision to turn a new, purpose built space into a breathtaking display, highlighting the contemporary architectural features.”
The notice continues: “The galleries will focus in particular on the international reach of Scottish design, both historically and today, with a strong emphasis placed on the design process, materials and technological innovation, and on particular centres of design in Scotland.”
The Scottish Design Galleries’ centrepiece will be Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Oak Room.
Recovered from Miss Cranston’s Ingram Street Tea Room in Glasgow in the 1970s, the Oak Room will be re-assembled from 600 pieces of salvaged oak.
The Scottish Design Galleries will also explore the international diaspora of Scottish design and how design can play a role in changing society.
It will also explore the Scottish influence on digital design.
The V&A is intended to be a the heart of the £1 billion regeneration of Dundee waterfront.
If all goes to schedule, the building should be complete by the end of 2017 and open to the public by June 2018.
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma design for the V&A was chosen in 2010.
It won ahead of a five other designs on the final shortlist.
The museum is being created through a ground-breaking partnership between the V&A, the University of Dundee, Abertay University, Scottish Enterprise and Dundee City Council.