Schedule Of The Building Process

59 Planning, preliminary brief 2007
60 Architectural competition Open
61 Period of project
62 Opening of the construction work April 2009
63 Conclusion of the construction May 2012
64 Furnishing and moving the collections Throughout, on completion of floor-by-floor refurbshments
65 Opening of the new building for public 5 May 2012 (by HM The Queen)