Tate Modern

 

Address:                                   Bankside

                                                London

                                                SE1 9TG

 

Telephone:                                020 78878000

 

Nearest Underground Station:    Blackfrairs and Southwark

 

Opening Hours:                         Sunday to Thursday, 10.00-18.00
Friday and Saturday, 10.00-22.00
Closed 24th, 25^th and 26^th  December

 

 

Tate Modern is Britain's national museum of international modern art in London and houses work by famous artist such as Picasso and Dali.
The Tate Modern  is housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The power station consisted of a huge turbine hall, thirty-five metres high and 152 metres long, with, parallel to it, the boiler house. The turbine hall became a dramatic entrance area, with ramped access, as well as a display space for very large sculptural projects. The boiler house became the galleries. These are on three levels running the full length of the building. Above the original roofline of the power station a two-storey glass penthouse was addred this is known as the lightbeam. The top level of this houses a café-restaurant with stunning views of the river and the City.

 

 

Related Website - http://www.tate.org.uk/