We've just come out of the bicentenary year of the National Gallery, crossing the threshold into our third century, and we've been thinking a lot about the future. In part, this lies in developing a building a called St Vincent House at the back of the gallery, which was acquired in the late 1990s for development.
Now two donations of an astonishing scale and of huge importance, totally £375m, are enabling us develop St Vincent House and take on the future. The new wing on the site will allow us to grow and develop the collection, but it also has great symbolic value. It's about London’s importance as a culture capital.
