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The National Gallery in London will celebrate its 200th birthday in 2024
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London’s National Gallery is embarking on a £25m-£30m project to upgrade its building, to be partly completed in early 2024 to celebrate its 200th anniversary. There will be three key elements: upgrading the lobby of the Sainsbury Wing, creating a new research centre and improving outdoor space on the edge of Trafalgar Square.
Gabriele Finaldi, the gallery’s director, is convinced that it is the right time to launch the project, “since we are beginning to see the end of Covid-19”. Although it may take five years to get visitor numbers back to their normal level of around six million people a year, he believes that tourists will begin to return. London “will always be an attractive destination and we want to be part of the recovery”. ....

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