Gibson Thornley Architects and heritage specialist Purcell have unveiled their final phase of the Victoria & Albert Museum’s Photography Centre, which is due to open to the public this week.

The project has created four new gallery spaces at South Kensington and reworked a fifth. The 570sq m project features a new dedicated space housing the Royal Photographic Society Library and a state-of-the-art gallery charting advancements in camera technology, including a walk-in camera obscura.

The Photography Centre now has a total of seven galleries, following David Kohn Architects’ first phase of work, which completed in 2018.

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