The Scottish Government has pledged an extra £20 million of funding to the V&A museum outpost in Dundee, a year after costs for the Kengo Kuma-designed building doubled to £80 million.
The new deal is part of a £63.8 million financial package for the development of the city's waterfront, and is hoped to provide the last remaining funding gap for the long-delayed project, which is now due to open in Summer 2018.

The Scottish government already pledged an additional £10 million to the project after its cost rocketed from £45 million to £80.11 million early last year.

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Charitable organisation the Heritage Lottery Fund also pledged a further £4.5 million towards the cost of the building to help cover the increase ? in addition to the £9.4 million it awarded the project in 2014.

The V&A is also backing a Fumihiko Maki-designed museum in Shenzhen, which is planned to be China's "first major museum of design".
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