More than three years after first announcing its plans to open a London-based gallery, the National Media Museum is now looking for contractors to start the works, as first reported by Amateur Photographer.

The new photographic gallery, dubbed Media Space, will be hosted by the Science Museum in Kensington, and will have its own entrance, one main gallery divided into three rooms, a store and a café.

According to the National Museum of Science and Industry, the works will entail the reconfiguration of four existing galleries on the second floor of the Science Museum, the building of new hoardings, as well as the demolition of existing walls and removal of an existing steel mezzanine structure.

The works are expected to last four months from 30 March, with the gallery opening in 2013.

Late last year, BJP obtained the provisional plans for the space [see schematics below] in a Freedom of Information request. At that time, the museum confirmed that the Media Space project had a budget of £4m, with a little over £400,000 already invested.

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