National Museums Liverpool
Free to Apply
Closing: 17th November ’25
This opportunity invites an artist or collective to co-design the cast iron panels for the International Slavery Museum’s monumental new Entrance Pavilion. Artists from the Global Majority, or with lived experience of the legacies of slavery, are especially encouraged to apply. The newly designed panels will be the visible ‘skin’ of the Entrance Pavilion, symbolically transforming iron—once used in chains and manacles and deeply ingrained in the infrastructure of transatlantic slavery—into a material of remembrance and resilience. The chosen artist will work collaboratively with International Slavery Museum colleagues, architects (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios), structural engineers, fabricators, and community partners to reflect the histories, legacies, and lived experiences represented at the museum. The successful artist will receive a £30,000 fee plus additional expenses covered. The museum is expected to reopen in 2029.