Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1
Telephone: 020 7887 8008
Tate Modern opened in May 2000 and is Britain's National museum of International modern art in London. The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981.
The permanent collection of Tate Modern is on display on levels three and five of the building, while level four houses large temporary exhibitions and a small exhibition space on level 2 houses work by contemporary artists.
Visitors enter through the Turbine Hall which once housed the electricity generators of the old power station. It is seven storeys tall with 3,400 square metres of floorspace and is capable of housing huge sculptural works.
The permanent collection includes work by Dali, Matisse, Picasso, Warhol, plus sculpture by Hepworth and Einstein.
The artists that have exhibited specially commissioned work in the turbine hall are: 2000 - Louise Bourgeois - Maman, I Do, I Undo, I Redo 2001 - Juan Munoz - Double Bind 2002 - Anish Kapoor - Marsyas 2003 - Olafur Eliasson - The Weather Project 2004 - Bruce Nauman - Raw Materials 2005 - Rachel Whiteread- Embankment.
Admission free
Open: Sun-Thurs 10.00-18.00, Fri-Sat 10.00-22.00
Nearest tube: Blackfriars, Southwark
A popular approach to Tate Modern is via St Paul's Cathedral and the London Millennium Bridge.
There is also a riverboat pier just outside the gallery called Bankside Pier, with connections to the Docklands and Greenwich via regular passenger boat services (commuter service) and the Tate to Tate service, which connects Tate Modern with Tate Britain via the London Eye.
Website: www.tate.org.uk
