London Tourist Attractions
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Tate Modern
London
The Tate Modern is Britain's national museum of international modern art and one
of the UK's top three tourist attractions.
Opened in the year 2000, in just eight years the Tate Modern has changed London
by revitalising the South Bank of the River Thames and has seen more than 30 million
people visit to become the most visited museum of modern art.
The average number of visitors annually is an impressive 4.6 million people with
60% of these under the age of 35.
More than just an art gallery, the Turbine Hall houses a number of thought provoking
and spectacular installations on a variety of topics.
The Tate Modern presents collections of international modern and contemporary art
dating from 1900 onwards, and highlights include works by Dali, Picasso, Matisse,
Rothko and Warhol as well as contemporary work by artists such as Dorothy Cross,
Gilbert & George and Susan Hiller.
The current gallery layout is:
Level 3 - Material Gestures: A room devoted to painting and sculpture from
the 1940s and 1950s demonstrating abstraction, expressionism and abstract expressionism
featuring work by Claude Monet, Anish Kapoor and Henri Matisse.
Level 3 - Poetry and Dream: The displays focus on Surrealism with the surrounding
displays look at other artists who have responded or diverged from Surrealism, or
explored related themes such as the world of dreams, the unconscious and myth.
Level 3 - Scale: These 2 galleries focus on experimentations with scale to
challenge perception and feature the famous "No Title (Table and Four Chairs)" by
Robert Therrien.
Level 5 - Energy and Process: The focus is on 'Arte Povera'.
Level 5 - No Ghost Just a Shell
Level 5 - States of Flux: Devoted to the early twentieth-century movements
Cubism, Futurism and Vorticism featuring ork by Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.
Admission
Free
Address
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
Official website:
www.tate.org.uk/modern
Hotels near Tate Modern
The following London hotels are located near the Tate Modern in central London so they have good transport
links to most London events, exhibitions, museums, shows and other top London tourist
attractions.
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