Black Country Living Museum Visitor Centre and Historical Area

Project Start – November 2021
Completion – March 2023
Client – Steane LTD

The visitor centre is a new hub at the entrance to the museum, located on the vintage tram turning circle at the upper end of the site. The building is designed to welcome visitors and encourage them to understand and explore the collections that stretch from the building down the valley to the historic mine shafts and canal arm at the bottom.
The building has been carefully designed to be naturally ventilated through automatic operable windows and its striking external windcatcher chimneys that pull and circulate the air. These support the air source heat pump underfloor heating system and a fully electric, zero-fossil fuel, super-insulated, high-performance building.
“This is the single largest development in the Black Country Living Museum’s history”

M&D will be supplying and installing all mechanical pipework services to include –

• Low temperature hot water heating
• Domestic Water
• Above Ground Drainage
• Natural Gas