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The Tate Modern is part of the art gallery group ‘Tate’. Based on the South Bank River Thames at the foot of the Millennium Bridge in London, the Tate Modern is Britain’s international modern art museum. The building that houses the Tate Modern was formerly Bankside Power Station, which closed in 1981 and was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The building then re-opened as the Tate Modern in 2000, having been restored and converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron and British construction contractors Carillion (although French power company EDF Energy owns a sixth of the building). The Tate Modern is famous for its 1st floor gallery space called the Turbine Hall, which has 3400 square meters of open floor space and is five storeys high.

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  • Facts
  • After the reconstruction to convert the power station into an art gallery, the front of the Tate Modern features a brick chimney, 99 metres high.
  • St Paul’s Cathedral sits directly opposite to the Tate Modern on the other side of the Thames, and set back about 100 metres.
  • Unlike many art galleries, the collections in the Tate Modern are not organised in chronological order, rather they are laid out by theme.
  • There is currently an extension planned for the south of the Tate Modern to be completed by the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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