The Victoria & Albert museum has unveiled a £30m renewal programme – just weeks after abandoning plans to build Daniel Libeskind’s controversial £70m Spiral extension.

Funding for the plans have been raised by collecting £22m in private donations as well as a £3.4m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The programme will run until 2009 and includes the opening of the UK’s first permanent architecture gallery in 2005; another new, £1.5m gallery entitled Sculpture in Britain, due to open in 2005; the £4.25m Jameel Gallery of Islamic Arts, which is expected to launch in 2006 and a new £4m Education Centre to be opened in the Henry Cole wing in 2007.

The museum’s 19th century garden will also receive a £2m redesign by Kim Wilkie, opening up a new visitor route from the new entrance to the centre of the garden.

Mark Jones, director of the V&A, said: “By 2007 we will have transformed the ground floor of the museum with a new central focus on Kim Wilkie’s garden.

“In 2008, we will open the William and Judith Bollinger Jewellery Gallery and in 2009 we will open the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.”

Jones added that the museum aims to minimise visitor disruption during the building work by keeping most objects on display throughout the revamp.