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Tate
Modern is
a modern
art gallery
located
in
London.
It
is
Britain's
national
gallery
of
international
modern
art
and
forms
part
of
the Tate group
(together
with Tate
Britain, Tate
Liverpool, Tate
St
Ives and Tate
Online).It
is
based
in
the
former Bankside
Power
Station,
in
the Bankside area
of
the London
Borough
of
Southwark.
Tate
holds
the
national
collection
of
British
art
from
1900
to
the
present
day
and
international
modern
and
contemporary
art.Tate
Modern
is
one
of
the largest museums
of
modern
and
contemporary
art
in
the
world.
As
with
the
UK's
other
national
galleries
and
museums,
there
is
no
admission
charge
for
access
to
the
collection
displays,
which
take
up
the
majority
of
the
gallery
space,
while
tickets
must
be
purchased
for
the
major
temporary
exhibitions.
The
gallery
is
a
highly
visited
museum,
with
5.9
million
visitors
in
2018,
making
it
the
sixth-most
visited
art
museum
in
the
world,
and
the
most
visited
in
Britain.
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.
It
is
directly
across
the
river
from St
Paul's
Cathedral.
The
power
station
closed
in
1981.
Prior
to
redevelopment,
the
power
station
was
a
200 m
(660 ft)
long, steel
framed,
brick clad building
with
a
substantial
central
chimney
standing
99 m
(325 ft).
The
structure
was
roughly
divided
into
three
main
areas
each
running
east–west
–
the
huge
main Turbine
Hall in
the
centre,
with
the boiler
house to
the
north
and
the
switch
house
to
the
south.
Initial
redevelopment
For
many
years
after
closure
Bankside
Power
station
was
at
risk
of
being
demolished
by
developers.
Many
people
campaigned
for
the
building
to
be
saved
and
put
forward
suggestions
for
possible
new
uses.
An
application
to list the
building
was
refused.
In
April
1994
the Tate Gallery
announced
that
Bankside
would
be
the
home
for
the
new
Tate
Modern.
In
July
of
the
same
year,
an
international
competition
was
launched
to
select
an
architect
for
the
new
gallery.
Jacques
Herzog
and
Pierre
de
Meuron
of Herzog
&
de
Meuron were
announced
as
the
winning
architects
in
January
1995.
The
£134 million
conversion
to
the
Tate
Modern
started
in
June
1995
and
completed
in
January
2000.
The
most
obvious
external
change
was
the
two-story
glass
extension
on
one
half
of
the
roof.
Much
of
the
original
internal
structure
remained,
including
the
cavernous
main
turbine
hall,
which
retained
the
overhead
travelling
crane.
An electrical
substation,
taking
up
the
Switch
House
in
the
southern
third
of
the
building,
remained
on-site
and
owned
by
the
French
power
company EDF
Energy while
Tate
took
over
the
northern
Boiler
House
for
Tate
Modern's
main
exhibition
spaces.
The
history
of
the
site
as
well
as
information
about
the
conversion
was
the
basis
for
a
2008
documentary Architects
Herzog
and
de
Meuron:
Alchemy
of
Building
&
Tate
Modern.
This
challenging
conversion
work
was
carried
by Carillion.
Opening
and
initial
reception
Tate
Modern
was
opened
by the
Queen on
11
May
2000.
Tate
Modern
received
5.25 million
visitors
in
its
first
year.
The
previous
year
the
three
existing
Tate
galleries
had
received
2.5 million
visitors
combined.