- History and Background. The Tate Modern, part of the Tate group of British art museums, is located on London's Southbank, overlooking the Thames.
- The Tate Modern carries so much weight in the collective London consciousness that it’s hard to believe it only opened in 2000.
- ...entitled Add Colour (Refugee Boat) during the press preview of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind exhibition at Tate Modern in London on 13 February 2024.
- As the world’s largest and most visited modern art museum, the Tate Modern hosts over 5 million visitors every year!
- The power station closed in 1981, but was remodelled to house the Tate collections of modern art and reopened to the public in 2000.
- The 4.2 million bricks used on the façade of the building and the gigantic tower formulate the Tate Modern as a prominent and distinguishable design.
- What about temporary exhibits? It’s rare that any exhibition at Tate Modern is awaited with anything less than bated breath.
- The most visited modern art gallery in the world, Tate Modern features a vast collection of art and exhibitions of all shapes and sizes.
- 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.
- But whereas the café at Tate Britain is housed in its basement, the view from the Kitchen and Bar on the 6th floor of Tate Modern takes some beating.