Cogapp wins Great North Tender
August 2008

Cogapp has won a highly competitive tender process to undertake a large project for the new Great North Museum in Newcastle.

Work will involve the design of a number of interactives to be stationed in the museum, and the production of compelling audio visual content for use within various exhibitions.

The museum, designed by award-winning design firm Casson Mann, will bring the varied collections of four Newcastle-based museums together under one roof; eventually combining the natural history collections of the well-known Hancock Museum with some of the Greek and Etruscan objects housed in the Shefton Museum, as well as the prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon collections of the Museum of Antiquities and contemporary decorative arts from the Hatton Gallery.

Cogapp will handle everything from design and programming to video shoot, 3D modelling, sign language narration and rights clearance. The project is to be delivered by the end of December 2008, in time for the museum's grand opening in 2009.

Project manager for Cogapp, Ian Smith, said: "We are delighted to have won the project. The museum will draw the four collections together in an exciting way, and we look forward to developing interactives and content that really bring the exhibitions to life."