The new V&A at Dundee gallery will receive £3m of funding in 2013/2014, the government has announced.

Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop confirmed the funding while visiting an exhibition of photographs from the V&A collection, 'Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography', at the McManus in Dundee.

Ms Hyslop said: "V&A at Dundee is an international cultural project that will attract visitors from all over the world. It is also at the heart of this city’s waterfront regeneration, the benefits of which are already beginning to be appreciated not only in Dundee but across Scotland.


"This substantial financial contribution demonstrates our commitment to continue investing in capital projects such as this to support economic recovery and create more jobs."

V&A at Dundee director Philip Long said: "I am delighted to welcome the Cabinet Secretary to this exhibition, which shows the stunning quality of the material which the V&A can provide. We are of course extremely grateful for the Scottish Government’s support of our project, which is invaluable in helping bring V&A at Dundee to fruition."

The new gallery at Dundee is expected to open in 2015 and is part of the ongoing Waterfront Project; an ambitious thirty-year renovation scheme.

Japanese architects Kengo Kuma & Associates designed the new V&A, working in partnership with Scottish practice Cre8architecture.

The building’s design makes reference to V&A at Dundee’s neighbour; the RRS Discovery, which was designed and constructed in the city.

The Dundee Waterfront Project will include a series of five connected regeneration projects stretching along an 8km coastline of the River Tay estuary, a new street grid and new walking, cycling and public transport routes.

(IT/GK)