- As the world’s largest and most visited modern art museum, the Tate Modern hosts over 5 million visitors every year!
- Tate Modern is the jewel in the crown of modern art galleries in London. It holds the nation’s collection of modern art from 1900 to the present day.
- The Tate Modern carries so much weight in the collective London consciousness that it’s hard to believe it only opened in 2000.
- The most visited modern art gallery in the world, Tate Modern features a vast collection of art and exhibitions of all shapes and sizes.
- Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art, created in the year 2000 from a disused power station in the heart of London.
- Since the Tate Modern first opened in 2000, the collections have not been displayed in chronological order but have been arranged thematically into broad groups.
- What about temporary exhibits? It’s rare that any exhibition at Tate Modern is awaited with anything less than bated breath.
- The power station closed in 1981, but was remodelled to house the Tate collections of modern art and reopened to the public in 2000.
- History and Background. The Tate Modern, part of the Tate group of British art museums, is located on London's Southbank, overlooking the Thames.
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