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London Photography museum to move home after nearly 40 years

20th Oct 2008

The "Photographers' Gallery", the world's very first dedicated museum of photography, will close on 16 November after 37 years in its current home. This move is happening a bit earlier than was originally planned after the gallery sold its Soho premises to a developer who has plans for a boutique hotel on the Great Newport Street site..

The good news is that the museum is to create a temporary home on nearby Ramillies Street, on the very site where the new £15.5million photography centre is to be built.

The current warehouse-style gallery is set to run for about 18 months from 6 December when building starts on the new centre, which is due to open in 2011.

Brett Rogers, the director, said: "The warehouse won't be the all-singing all-dancing new building but we will be able to continue." The gallery will close in its old buildings on 16 November with an open-house tea party.

David Bailey, the photographer, said the new centre would "put photography right back into the heart of London".

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