New Delhi, July 28 -- Visitors to the proposed Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum in the historic North and South Blocks will enter through glass "Peacock Pavilions", walk beneath expansive glass-covered courtyards and move between the two landmark buildings through an underground tunnel designed for transporting artworks, according to the first construction tender floated for the ambitious project.

The Central Public Works Department (CPWD), which is executing projects under the Central Vista redevelopment plan, has invited bids for a Rs.735-crore civil works package to begin converting the nearly century-old Secretariat buildings into the museum. The contract has a completion period of 26 months and covers the first phase of construction requir...