In March 2015, Penelope Curtis, director of Tate Britain from 2010 to 2015, became the director designate of Museu Calouste Gulbenkian. Curtis has been spending time trying to marry together the modern art collection at the adjacent Centro de Arte Moderna with the museum collection of 6,000 objects. Curtis has used the challenge to integrate the collection of arts from the world of Islam in a new "crossings gallery" in 2018. Curtis notes that the new gallery will be the first substantial change in the museum since 1969.