The expanded Whitechapel Gallery is now open

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The expanded Whitechapel Gallery has now been open for a year.

View our opening exhibition programme and visiting information.

The Whitechapel Gallery completed an ambitious £13 million expansion in April 2009, the greatest event in its 100-year history. Following the former Whitechapel Library’s move to new facility, the Whitechapel Gallery acquired the building to restore it and keep it open as a free art gallery all year round.

Almost doubling in size the expanded Whitechapel Gallery includes;
• A Collection Gallery offering a chance to see important art collections from around the world
• A Commission Gallery with a brand new art work created specially for the building every year
• An Archive Collection Gallery and Archive Research Room telling the story of the history of the Gallery and the local area over the last 100 years.
• An Education and Research Tower for local schools, community groups and offering courses for all
• A new street facing café and full disabled access to the whole building

Support the expansion
Become a part of the story of modern art and help secure the next 100 years. Find out how to support the expansion.

Explore the expanding Whitechapel Gallery
Chart the progress of the Whitechapel’s Gallery’s exciting expansion as it happened.
See how the Whitechapel Gallery doubled in size and the new spaces with their amazing transformations.
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View the exclusive architecture tour with the Guardian architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, with Whitechapel Gallery director Iwona Blazwick, and artist Rachel Whiteread.

You can also see our new spaces on BBC News