The National Photography Collection from the National Media Museum is to go on display at a new purpose-built venue in London.
Based on the second floor of the Science Museum in London, Media Space will open in June next year.
The collaboration between the two museums will present two major exhibitions and a series of free installations in its studio space each year.
The first major exhibition in Media Space will be Revelations: Experiments in Photography, and the inaugural installation in the Virgin Media Studio space will be by digital art and design collective, Universal Everything.
Revelations: Experiments in Photography will explore contemporary art photographers’ responses to scientific photography made between 1850 and 1920.
The exhibition of nearly 80 works will draw upon important historical photographs from the collections of the National Media Museum and the Science Museum.
Ian Blatchford, director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, said: “Media Space is a project that is long overdue.”
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