Tate Modern
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Turbine Hall
Epic site-specific installationsThis former power station hall, 35 metres high, has hosted monumental works since 2000, from Olafur Eliasson’s glowing sun to Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds.
📍 Ground Floor
Rothko Room
Abstract expressionist masterpiecesNine Seagram Murals by Mark Rothko, donated in 1970, immerse visitors in deep reds and maroons originally intended for a New York restaurant.
📍 Level 2, Boiler House
Viewing Platform
Panoramic views of LondonOpened in 2016, the platform offers 360° views of St Paul’s Cathedral, the Shard, and the Thames, drawing over a million visitors in its first year.
📍 Blavatnik Building, Level 10
Picasso Works
Iconic 20th-century artTate Modern owns several works by Picasso, including the 1937 painting ‘Weeping Woman’, created the same year as his anti-war masterpiece ‘Guernica’.
📍 Level 4, Boiler House
Switch House
Bold architectural expansionHerzog & de Meuron’s 2016 pyramid-like extension added roughly 60% more space, with brick lattice echoing the original Bankside Power Station.
📍 Blavatnik Building
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🤓 Fun Facts
Tate Modern opened in 2000 inside the former Bankside Power Station, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the late 1940s.
In 2023 Tate Modern attracted about 4.7 million visitors, the UK’s most-visited modern art museum.
The Turbine Hall is 152 metres long - longer than St Paul’s Cathedral.
Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik Building cost around £260 million and opened in June 2016.
Mark Rothko withdrew the Seagram Murals from a New York commission, later gifting them to Tate in 1970.
