Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the

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in London, England. It is part of the

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

network of galleries in England, with

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Tate Liverpool Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development C ...

and

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. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the

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since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the

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museums in the country. The museum had 525,144 visitors in 2021, an increase of 34 percent from 2020 but still well below pre-

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levels. but still ranked 50th on the

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in the world.

History

The gallery is on Millbank, on the site of the former

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. Construction, undertaken by

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, commenced in 1893, and the gallery opened on 21 July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. However, from the start it was commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate, and in 1932 it officially adopted that name. Before 2000, the gallery housed and displayed both British and modern collections, but the launch of

saw Tate's modern collections move there, while the old Millbank gallery became dedicated to the display of historical and contemporary

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. As a consequence, it was renamed Tate Britain in March 2000. The front part of the building was designed by Sidney R. J. Smith with a classical

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and

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behind, and the central sculpture gallery was designed by

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. Tate Britain includes the Clore Gallery of 1987, designed by James Stirling, which houses work by J. M. W. Turner. The Clore Gallery has been regarded as an important example of

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, especially in the use of contextual irony: each section of the external facade quotes liberally from the building next to it in regard to materials and detailing. Clore Gallery London Dec07

Crises during its existence include flood damage to artworks from the River Thames spilling its banks, and bomb damage during World War II. However, most of the collection was in safe storage elsewhere during the war, and a large Stanley Spencer painting, deemed too big to move, had a protective brick wall built in front of it. In 1970, the building was given

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listed status. In 2012, Tate Britain announced that it had raised the £45 million required to complete a major renovation, largely thanks to a £4.9 million grant from the

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and £1 million given by Tate Members. The museum stayed open throughout the three phases of renovation. Completed in 2013, the newly designed sections were conceived by the architects

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and included a total of nine new galleries, with reinforced flooring to accommodate heavy sculptures. A second part was unveiled later that year, the centrepiece being the reopening of the building's Thames-facing entrance as well as a new spiral staircase beneath its rotunda. The circular balcony of the rotunda's domed atrium, closed to visitors since the 1920s, was reopened. The gallery also now has a dedicated schools' entrance and reception beneath its entrance steps on Millbank and a new archive gallery for the presentation of temporary displays.

Facilities

The front entrance is accessible by steps. A side entrance at a lower level has a ramp for wheelchair access. The gallery provides a restaurant and a café, as well as a Friends room, open only to members of the Tate. This membership is open to the public on payment of an annual subscription. As well as administration offices the building complex houses the Prints and Drawings Rooms (in the Clore galleries), as well as the Library and Archive in the Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms. The restaurant features a mural by

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, ''

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''. Protests over the depiction of the enslavement of Black children and the stereotyping of Chinese figures in the mural has led to the closure of the restaurant. Tate Britain and Tate Modern are now connected by a river bus along the

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, which runs from

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immediately outside Tate Britain. The boat is decorated with spots, based on paintings of similar appearance by

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. The lighting artwork incorporated in the pier's structure is by

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Displays

The main display spaces show the permanent collection of historic British art, as well as contemporary work. It has rooms dedicated to works by one artist, such as:

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, John Latham,

Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Work Much of Gordon's ...

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, and Marcus Gheeraerts II, though these work, such as it is with rest of the collection, are subject to rotation. The gallery also organises career retrospectives of British artists and temporary major exhibitions of British Art. Every three years the gallery stages a Triennial exhibition in which a guest curator provides an overview of contemporary British Art. The 2003 Tate Triennial was called ''Days Like These''. ''Art Now'' is a small changing show of a contemporary artist's work in a dedicated room. Tate Britain is the home of the annual and usually controversial

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exhibition, featuring four artists selected by a jury chaired by the director of Tate Britain. This is spread out over the year with the four nominees announced in May, the show of their work opened in October and the prize itself given in December. Each stage of the prize generates media coverage, and there have also been a number of demonstrations against the prize, notably since 2000 an annual picket by Stuckist artists. In recent years the exhibition and award ceremony have taken place at locations other than in Tate Britain: for example, in Liverpool (2007), Derry (2013), Glasgow (2015) and Hull (2017). Tate Britain has attempted to reach out to a different and younger audience with ''Late at Tate Britain'' on the first Friday of every month, with half-price admission to exhibitions, live music and performance art. Other public involvement has included the display of visitors', as opposed to curators', interpretation of certain artworks. Regular free tours operate on the hour, and at 1:15 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday short 15-minute talks are given on paintings, artists and artistic styles.Tate Britain
, LondonBoard.co.uk, Accessed 8 February 2012.

Permanent collection

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can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). More recent artists include

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, Peter Blake and

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. Works in the permanent Tate collection, which may be on display at Tate Britain include: * Unknown 17th-century artist: '' The Cholmondeley Ladies'' *

: '' Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion'' *

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: '' Newton'' *

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: '' The Mud Bath'' *

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'' *

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'' *

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: ''

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'' *

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: '' Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of 5 October 1858'' *

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: '' Past and Present'' *

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: '' Giovanna Baccelli'' * Mark Gertler: ''

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'' *

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: '' Pamela is Married'' *

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'' *

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: ''

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'' * John Martin: ''

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'' *

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: '' Recumbent Figure 1938'' * Sir

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'' * Sir

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: '' Three Ladies Adorning a Term of hymen'' *

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: ''

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'', ''

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'' * Sir

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, ''Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling'' *

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, ''

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'' * Stanley Spencer: '' The Resurrection, Cookham'' *

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: '' Horse Attacked by a Lion'' *

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'' * J. M. W. Turner: '' The Golden Bough'', ''

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'' * Henry Wallis: ''

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'' * John William Waterhouse: ''

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'', '' The Magic Circle'' *

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: '' Symphony in White, No. 2: The Little White Girl'', '' Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge'' *

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: ''Pin Up and Porn Queen Jigsaw'' *

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: ''Looped Network Suspended in Pictorial Space'' *

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: ''Assembly'' *

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: ''Untitled (Floor/Ceiling)'' * Joanna Mary Wells: ''Gretchen'' *

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: ''Five Forms'' * Annie Louisa Swynnerton: ''Oreads'' *

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: ''Monochrome Abstract Composition'' *

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: ''The Fallowfield'' *

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: ''Achæan'' *

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: ''War'' *

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: ''Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century'' *

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: ''December 4th, 1938'' *

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: ''Family Group'' *

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: ''Abstract Composition'' *

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: ''Side Entrance'' *

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: ''Inversions'' * Hilary Lloyd: ''One Minute of Water'' *

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: ''Shogun'' *

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: ''Headborn'' *

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: ''Standing Figure with African Masks'' *

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: ''Nude Girl'' *

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: ''Flatford Mill'' *

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: ''Belshazzar’s Feast, the Writing on Your Wall'' * Amelia Robertson Hill: ''Percy Bysshe Shelley'' *

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: ''Spring, 1957 (Project for Sculpture)'' *

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: ''Javanese Head''

Gallery

Statue of Millais

When the

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painter and President of the

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, died in 1896, the Prince of Wales (later to become

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) chaired a memorial committee, which commissioned a statue of the artist.Birchall, Heather
"Sir Thomas Brock 1847–1922"
Tate online, February 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2008. The sculpture, by

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, was installed at the front of the gallery in the garden on the east side in 1905. On 23 November that year, ''

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'' called it "a breezy statue, representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him". In 1953, Tate Director, Sir Norman Reid, attempted to have it replaced by

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's ''John the Baptist'', and in 1962 again proposed its removal, calling its presence "positively harmful". His efforts were frustrated by the statue's owner, the Ministry of Works. Ownership was transferred from the Ministry to

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in 1996, and by them in turn to the Tate. In 2000 the statue was removed to the rear of the building.

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