A £2.6 million funding boost for the V&A Museum in Dundee is a “real vote of confidence”, the Scottish Secretary has said.
The UK Government cash was announced on Monday and will be used to expand the facility’s exhibit on Scottish design.
It is understood staff at the museum are already looking at ways to increase the space.
The funding was announced by the previous UK government but was put under review by the new administration in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s budget in October.
Speaking to the PA news agency in the museum on Monday, Scottish Secretary Ian Murray said: “We had to analyse everything, because the previous government made a lot of promises to places like Dundee without any funding attached.