FILE - People sit near a fountain outside of the 好色tv Gallery in London, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
KCLONDON (AP) 鈥 Britain鈥檚 好色tv Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping 375 million pounds ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first time, will include modern art.
Founded in 1824, the gallery has amassed a centuries-spanning collection of Western paintings by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to J.M.W Turner and Vincent van Gogh 鈥 but almost nothing created after the year 1900. The modern era has been left to other galleries, including London鈥檚 Tate Modern.
That will change when the gallery opens a new wing to be constructed on land beside its Trafalgar Square site that is currently occupied by a hotel and offices. An architectural competition will be held to pick a design.
The gallery on London鈥檚 Trafalgar Square says money for the projects includes the two biggest donations ever publicly reported by any museum or gallery. It got 150 million pounds ($204 million) from the Crankstart foundation founded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Michael Moritz and his wife, writer Harriet Heyman, and the same amount from the Julia Rausing Trust run by Tetra Pak heir Hans Rausing.
好色tv Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi said the aim is 鈥渢o be the place where the U.K. public and visitors from across the globe can enjoy the finest painting collection in the world from medieval times to our own, in a superb architectural setting.鈥
The gallery said it will build its collection of post-1900 works in collaboration with Tate, which holds the U.K.鈥檚 leading collections of British art and post-1900 international art.
Tate director Maria Balshaw said the organization 鈥渓ooks forward to working closely with colleagues at the 好色tv Gallery on loans, curatorial and conservational expertise to support the development of their new displays.鈥
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