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The V&A Dundee Museum is to receive £500,000 from a UK government grant scheme for coastal communities.
The cost of the design museum, to be built on the banks of the Tay, has almost doubled to £80m.
Councillors in Dundee are due to meet later to discuss a £6.5m cash injection.
The Heritage Lottery Fund is also due to announce this week whether it will put up an additional £4.5m of funding.
Last week the Scottish government pledged an extra £10m towards the construction project.
The latest grant is from UK government's Coastal Communities Fund.
The V&A Dundee Museum is among 27 projects in coastal towns and villages Scotland which will benefit from a total of £9.58m of funding.
Council approval
The cost of the V&A project had originally been estimated at about £45m.
A council report published earlier this month revealed that the authority has been in tender negotiations with BAM Construction for several months, and the two have now agreed a fixed price of £76.16m for the construction of the building.
Work on the design museum could begin in March if councillors approve the funding strategy set out in that report.
The plans included seeking £22m of extra funding from the Scottish government, as well as £4.5m from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £6.6m from private fundraising.The remaining sum of £6.5m would be drawn from the council's capital budget for 2015-18.