diff --git a/src/nbsphinx.py b/src/nbsphinx.py
index d47f37ee..5c02b118 100644
--- a/src/nbsphinx.py
+++ b/src/nbsphinx.py
@@ -2328,23 +2328,55 @@ def depart_admonition_text(self, node):
 
 
 def depart_gallery_html(self, node):
-    self.body.append('<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails">\n')
+    # keep temporary support for old sphinx_gallery versions < 0.11.0 by
+    # discovering the version at runtime
+    import importlib.metadata
+    try:
+        # avoid hard dependencies to non-standard library packages for this
+        # temporary fix
+        from packaging.version import parse
+        sg_version = importlib.metadata.version('sphinx_gallery')
+        have_legacy_sphinx_gallery = parse(sg_version) < parse('0.11.0')
+    except (ModuleNotFoundError, importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError):
+        # keep default behaviour in case errors arise
+        have_legacy_sphinx_gallery = False
+    if not have_legacy_sphinx_gallery:
+        self.body.append('<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails">\n')
     for title, uri, filename, tooltip in node['entries']:
         if tooltip:
             tooltip = ' tooltip="{}"'.format(html.escape(tooltip))
-        self.body.append("""\
+        self.body.append(("""\
+<div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer"{tooltip}>
+  <div class="figure align-center">
+    <img alt="thumbnail" src="{filename}" />
+    <p class="caption">
+      <span class="caption-text">
+        <a class="reference internal" href="{uri}">
+          <span class="std std-ref">{title}</span>
+        </a>
+      </span>
+    </p>
+  </div>
+</div>""" if have_legacy_sphinx_gallery else """\
 <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer"{tooltip}>
   <img alt="" src="{filename}" />
-  <p><a class="reference internal" href="{uri}"><span class="std std-ref">{title}</span></a></p>
+  <p>
+    <a class="reference internal" href="{uri}">
+      <span class="std std-ref">{title}</span>
+    </a>
+  </p>
   <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">{title}</div>
 </div>
-""".format(
+""").format(
             uri=html.escape(uri),
             title=html.escape(title),
             tooltip=tooltip,
             filename=html.escape(filename),
         ))
-    self.body.append('</div>\n')
+    if have_legacy_sphinx_gallery:
+        self.body.append('<div class="sphx-glr-clear"></div>\n')
+    else:
+        self.body.append('</div>\n')
 
 
 def do_nothing(self, node):