Turbine Hall at Tate Modern | Tate Google+ Abraham Cruzvillegas Empty Lot , December 2015 © Joe Humphrys, Tate Photography The Turbine Hall has hosted some of the world’s most memorable and acclaimed works of contemporary art. And the way artists have interpreted this vast industrial space has revolutionised public perceptions of contemporary art in the twenty-first century. The Turbine Hall has a vast and dramatic entrance area with ramped access, as well as display space for large-scale sculptural projects and site-specific installation art. Running parallel to the Turbine Hall is the Boiler House, home to the galleries and various viewing pointings looking into the hall. On the opposite side of the building, the newly developed Switch House also houses galleries and dramatic architechtural features. A space for artist commissions In thinking about what Tate Modern was going to do with this space, the idea of commissioning within it came quite late on... We realised [the Turbine Hall] was a hugely significant space; awe-inspiring in its scale, and to ask any artist to occupy that space, to perform within it, would be a momentous undertaking.

Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern Louise Bourgeois created the first Turbine Hall commission, I Do, I Undo, I Redo, which was exhibited from 12 May – 26 November 2000. Consisting of three steel towers – each some 9 metres (30 ft) high –visitors could climb the staircases to the platforms, which Bourgeois envisaged would become stages for intimate and revelatory encounters between strangers and friends alike. Maman – a monumental steel spider – was made for the opening of Tate Modern as part of this commission. The sculpture was installed on the bridge, overlooking the three tall steel towers. Left Turbine Hall - South Bank - London, Greater London Often contains thought provoking artworks Owen October 17, 2015 Dave Marshall October 6, 2015 Great for meditation and solo exploration Dave Marshall October 6, 2015 Breathtaking industrial design. People watching Mecca. International art exhibitions. Free wifi. Annie Hall December 7, 2014 Impressive theatre on floor one of Tate Modern - very comfy seats, large clear screen and sound technology.

Hosts members AGM amongst other Tate tutorial & lecture style events - event calendar online Guy Corbet December 5, 2014 Awesome. Thought provoking. Chilling. In equal measure BeYna Caballero February 22, 2014 Picasso here!! Martin Tiedemann June 12, 2012 27 January: During the winter months, it becomes a welcome haven for weary tourists to escape the climate outdoors. Home to power generation equipment until the mid-1990s & adapted by Swiss architects Damien Hirst to head Tate Modern's Olympic programme | Art and design | The Guardian Damien Hirst Damien Hirst to head Tate Modern's Olympic programme The controversial artist gets his first UK retrospective in summer 2012, and Tino Sehgal offers performance art in the Turbine Hall Tate Modern is to host the UK's first major retrospective of Damien Hirst, pictured with his work Mother and Child Divided, which won the Turner prize in 1995.

Photograph: Andy Paradise/Tate Modern/PA Thursday 3 March 2011 11.53 EST First published on Thursday 3 March 2011 11.53 EST Close This article is 5 years old The most famous, controversial – and, some would say, overexposed – British artist never to have had a UK retrospective will dominate the Tate's programme during the 2012 Olympics. Damien Hirst will be the subject of a major survey next summer at Tate Modern. It is bound to be a major draw for visitors attending the London Games. The exhibition will show Hirst's earliest spot, spin and butterfly paintings and his shark in formaldehyde, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991). Large works, such as A Thousand Years – a vitrine containing a rotting cow's head, flies and an electric fly-killer – will also be shown. According to Tate curator Ann Gallagher, it will give visitors the opportunity "to step back from the noise surrounding Hirst, look back to 1988 [the year he sprang on to the scene with his now famous exhibition Freeze] and follow his career through".

In a first for an art exhibition, a room will be devoted to an auction: the sale that the artist held of his own work at Sotheby's. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever , as he named the event, made £111m in September 2008, just as, across the Atlantic, Lehman Brothers bank was collapsing. While a Briton occupies the major exhibition spaces, it is a London-born, German-raised artist, Tino Sehgal , who will make Tate Modern's 13th Turbine Hall installation. It will open in summer 2012 to coincide with the Olympics rather than during October, its customary slot. Whereas many works in the Turbine Hall have been on a vast scale, Sehgal's work is likely to be intimate performance art involving personal interaction between visitors and actors. A previous work featured singing museum attendants; another, two performers enacting The Kiss by Rodin. Tate Modern will host another likely blockbuster during the Games, a show devoted to Edvard Munch, drawing on recent research to present him as an emphatically modernist artist influenced by developments in technology, such as photography and cinema.

However, the £215m extension to Tate Modern, long promised in time for the Olympics, will be only partly complete, it is understood. Fundraising efforts have been slowed by the economic crisis, but, said Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate: "We are completely confident that we will raise the full £215m required." Tate Britain will also be pulling out all the stops during the Games. A major exhibition, Picasso and Britain, will examine the influence the artist had on British painters and sculptors. Specific Picassos will be paired with works by artists such as Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon. It will also show how the 1960 Picasso exhibition at the Tate Gallery profoundly influenced the work of the young David Hockney. The museum will also host a major Pre-Raphaelite exhibition, focusing on the movement's social radicalism and giving new emphasis to the female artists associated with the Brotherhood. Outside London, Tate Liverpool will host Turner Monet Twombly, examining the late periods of "three of the most significant artists of the past two centuries", according to director Christoph Grunenberg.

Mature works by Turner and Monet will be juxtaposed with recent paintings and sculpture by the American artist Cy Twombly . At St Ives the highlights will be a major exhibition of work by the long-established US painter Alex Katz , and a show devoted to one of Britain's most intriguing young artists, Cornish-born Simon Fujiwara . Tate Modern's Turbine Hall of fame: the best and worst artworks so far | Art and design | The Guardian Tate Modern's Turbine Hall of fame: the best and worst artworks so far As Tate Modern reveals its latest Turbine Hall blockbuster, Jonathan Jones gives his verdict on which installations have worked best so far, and which have failed to rise to the enormous challenge Friday 16 October 2015 10.44 EDT Last modified on Friday 16 October 2015 17.00 EDT Pinterest Louise Bourgeois’s I Do, I Undo, I Redo Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian The new Tate Modern got off to a spectacular start at the dawn of the 21st century with a masterpiece of surrealism by an artist whose long life connected the art of today with the first modern masters.

Louise Bourgeois, taught by Leger and steeped in memories of her French childhood, had an imagination large enough to fill the Turbine Hall with her own dream images, translated to a colossal scale. Towers with spiral staircases led to moments of mirrored contemplation and a giant spider invaded the former power station’s rational modern space. Bourgeois showed that powerful images dredged from the unconscious can make the most massive space intimate and confessional. When images succeed they are simultaneously grand and private. The idea of putting sculpture on this scale inside a museum was dictated by the industrial scale of the building itself. In choosing Bourgeois – and in all their choices since – the curators rejected some apparently obvious candidates such as Richard Serra and Jeff Koons who were already working on a large scale. The reward this first time was to brand the museum as something completely new, and not just an imitation of New York’s Museum of Modern Art or the Guggenheim. That proved a hugely successful strategy. But would subsequent artists be able to live up to Bourgeois? To do so they needed to learn the lesson of her masterclass: big art requires a big imagination.

Anish Kapoor, Marsyas (2002-3) Pinterest Anish Kapoor stands in front of his sculpture, Marsyas. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA A redness fills my mind when I remember the impossibly long and sensual object Anish Kapoor made for the Turbine Hall. In Greek mythology Marsyas is a satyr who challenges the god Apollo to a music contest. Marsyas plays his pipes and Apollo strums his lyre. It is always a mistake to challenge a god to a competition. Marsyas wins. His reward is gruesome. Apollo flays off his skin. In art the flaying of Marsyas is an old story, painted with grisly realism by Titian. Kapoor reinvented it brilliantly, merging the body of the satyr with his musical instrument. A vast hornpipe, hollow and sonorous, was suspended in the Turbine Hall, its openings at either end cavernous and dark, like bodily orifices. The deep redness of this giant musical instrument was creepily organic. It was like the flayed tendons and muscles of Marsyas – the gory beauty of his exposed anatomy. It was also strangely sexual. Satyrs in myth are practically walking penises.

They are creatures of lust and madness. That is why Marsyas cannot be allowed to play better than Apollo, the god of sunshine and reason: because the body cannot rule the mind. Kapoor’s sculpture reversed that law. This was a giant flayed phallus as much as a pipe: a wine red invasion of the cool grey Turbine Hall by dionysian forces of ecstasy and carnality. Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project (2003-4) Pinterest Olafur Eliasson with his installation The Weather Project. Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian The shimmering light of an indoor sun filled the Turbine Hall with wonder and awe, mirrors in the roof expanded and distorted space, people lay on the concrete floor high on art. Olafur Eliasson created the dreamy vibes of a rock concert in an art gallery. Psychedelic waves of cosmic grandeur had visitors delirious. And yet this was a serious work of art. Eliasson is a fan of the Romantic painter JMW Turner. He brought Turner into the 21st century to startling effect. We gazed into infinities of space and light and wondered about our place in the universe.

The Turbine Hall became a theatre of metaphysics and science. Eliasson connected the world inside the museum with the one outside. His grandiose vision of a nature remade with lights and mirrors was a powerful reminder that human beings are bound to the natural world in the deepest roots of our minds. Imagination itself is a child of the sun. We don’t just need its light to live, but to think. Carsten Holler, Test Site (2006-7) Pinterest Carsten Holler’s Test Site. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Long before Banksy created Dismaland, the spiralling tubular helter-skelter slides that Carsten Holler erected in the Turbine Hall turned Tate Modern into a theme park. What the hell was happening here? It was truly bizarre, a takeover by Hieronymus Bosch. The slides led from upper galleries of the museum down into the grand hall, and people queued like lemmings for the chance to hurtle to earth. You got the impression similar queues might have formed to jump off a cliff, had an artist suggested it. Holler’s installation was, somehow, profoundly intelligent. I am still trying to puzzle it out nearly a decade later.

His slides – recreated this year at the Hayward Gallery – both replicate and comment on the crowdsourced energy of contemporary society. Flashmob passions, suicidal selfies. Holler came to Tate Modern like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn, releasing the child in adults, and offering a freedom that was also a discipline – you must have this fun. He also changed what art can be. Since Test Site, interaction has become increasingly fashionable, in the Turbine Hall and elsewhere. Holler did it best. His slides were not as innocent as they seemed. Their tubular metallic structures confined as much as liberated their willing victims. There was something mad about it all. The artist, a sly, conceptualist Disney, created a subtle mockery of the wisdom of crowds. Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth (2008) Pinterest Shibboleth by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian The imagination and originality unleashed in the brilliant first decade of the Turbine Hall commissions – as you can see, and with no apologies to more recent efforts, all my favourites are from that decade – finally seemed to crack the museum itself apart.

Like a haunted house in a story by Edgar Allan Poe, Tate Modern was imploding. A huge crevice opened right through its ground floor, a geological rift tearing apart the architectural fabric. Civilisation was splintering. Dark forces were bursting upward. Surely this was the end. Salcedo’s installation was a perfect work of art that translated the surrealist tradition into a gargantuan architectural joke. She created a highly convincing gap in the floor of the Turbine Hall, a crack running from end to end, a scar from cheek to cheek. People were bizarrely fascinated. Crowds came not just to look but to fall in. Stories of accidents proliferated and it became obvious visitors were actually drawn to the hole – compelled to put a foot inside. Yet you did not need to interact with this eerie work to be haunted by it. Just like the first Turbine Hall sculptures by Bourgeois and like all the classics of this unique genre of art that stay in the mind, Shibboleth was not trying to be anything other than a work of art. All great art comes from imaginative depths and creates compelling images. That was true in the stone age and it is true in the Turbine Hall.

Salcedo is a poetic artist of loss and death and the uncanny. Her sinister crack in the world was a dark drawing on a stupendous scale, adrift in the mind, a divided landscape for a broken world. ... And the worst Pinterest Empty Lot by Abraham Cruzvillegas. Photograph: Guy Bell/REX Shutterstock Compared with the daring and intelligence of the best Turbine Hall commissions the latest work here looks lazy and complacent, as if unbothered by the challenge, uninterested in winning an audience. This awe-inspiring space is a chance to create something theatrical and mind-boggling. Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas has erected a scaffolding platform on which he has placed a network of triangular planters filled with soil from various London parks. He has no idea what will or won’t grow in them. It’s an idea that might elicit a shrug or, at best, a “hmm” in a group show about art and ecology. As a standalone work of art in one of the most dramatic museum spaces in the world it is a non-event. People look down on it from the Turbine Hall bridge, baffled. Parents are trying to explain it to their kids. “Well...

It’s about... er...” There is no aesthetic power and precious little to think about. Bring back the crack, the sun, the slides – anything – or perhaps it’s finally time to make that call to Mr Serra or Mr Koons. This is art forgetting that it has any mission to enflame the soul. What are the best art galleries in London? - London, GB - Forbes Travel Guide What are the best art galleries in London? London Correspondent London, England, UK London is mecca for art lovers and whatever genre or era you're interested in there is plenty for you to explore. Here are three of the very best galleries: Tate Modern This temple to contemporary art is an unmissable stop on London's art trail. Housed in an old power station it is home to hundreds of high profile works from David Hockney paintings to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain. The turbine hall is home to a constantly changing large-scale piece which always courts controversy – drop in to see what's filling this vast space this month. Annroy Gallery The brainchild of acclaimed photographer Rankin, the Annroy Gallery is a state-of-the-art photographic studio and gallery, hosting a range of exciting contemporary exhibitions.

More than merely an exhibition space, Annroy is also the heart of Rankin’s photographic practice and an intensely personal project for him. He named the building after his parents Ann and Roy and lives in a penthouse apartment here as well as having his offices and studio on-site. National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery was was founded in 1856 to collect portraits of famous British men and women and today features thousands of portraits from the 16th century to the present day. The most recent – and most talked about – is Paul Emsley's portrait of Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. Correspondent London, England, UK Art is a matter of taste, of course, and picking the “best” among London’s many museums and galleries is a little arbitrary. The permanent collection I return to again and again is at Tate Britain . The “original” Tate Gallery ( Tate Modern only opened in 2000) occupies a riverfront neoclassical building in Pimlico. The Tate has the world’s best collection of paintings by J. M. W. Turner, the Englishman whose washed-out, increasingly impressionistic works influenced both Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro when they visited London.

The gallery also has the country’s best Pre-Raphaelite collection, including John Everett Millais’ Ophelia—the hyperreal detail and coloring of Millais’ painting still strikes me every time I see it. This summer, the gallery hosts a major retrospective of painter of the Industrial Revolution, L. S. Lowry . It’s all on a much smaller-scale at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art . Highlights of the collection include Futurist works by Umberto Boccioni and Gino Severini, and panels by Modigliani and De Chirico. The setting, inside a Georgian residence in Islington, only heightens the feeling that you’re roaming around a wealthy philanthropist’s private collection. Which you are, sort of. If you prefer to hang around art’s bleeding edge, time your visit to coincide with the month’s First Thursday , during which the cutting-edge galleries and spaces of East London are open til late and host events, talks and open views. Correspondent London, England, UK London has one of the richest gallery scenes in the world, from publicly-subsidised powerhouse institutions to tiny neighborhood shopfront galleries.

Picking just a couple is a tricky task, but the following will give you a good spread of the scene. Modern and contemporary There's nowhere better to start than at Tate Modern . This former power station on the banks of the Thames holds a enormous collection of modern and contemporary works and hosts regular displays and exhibitions. You need a ticket for major shows, but there's no general admission, so you can explore at your leisure. Not that you'd be able to, but don't miss the extraordinary Turbine Hall, which hosts large scale installations, many of which have an interactive element. Old masters For pre-20th century art, head to the Dulwich Picture Gallery . This Sir John Soane-designed space, tucked away in leafy South East London, is something of a hidden gem. The collection of European old master paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries is superb and one of the oldest in the country, having been put together in the early 1790s. There's a modest admission fee to visit the collection, with exhibition tickets costing a little more. The next big thing?

The commercial galleries in Cork Street, Mayfair, have launched the London careers of many artists over the years, including illustrious names such as Joan Miró. Major dealers are now based all over the capital, but there's still something special about this historic street and it's still a good place to go if you're interested in checking out the potential greats of tomorrow. Under threat from developers, it's future is uncertain, so don't delay. Correspondent London, England, UK London is home to dozens of excellent art galleries. But here are three that offer something a little different. Tate Modern The trendy little brother of the Tate Britain, this is the most visited modern art gallery in the world – and there's good reason. The permanent exhibition is home to a who's who of contemporary greats, including Picasso, Warhol, Dalí and Matisse, while the temporary exhibitions in the vast Turbine Hall are among the most talked-about events of London's cultural calendar. The National Portrait Gallery Home to the largest collection of painted and photographed faces on earth, the wonderful collection here spans from the 16th century to the present day.

Unlike most art galleries, paintings are selected not for the skill of the artist, but for the significance of the sitter - although among the famous likenesses of Shakespeare, Edward VI and the Brontë sisters you will find the occasional Hogarth or Reynolds. Art in London, by London Where This isn't an art exhibition nor gallery in London. Where to go in London to see art... Visitors to London can take advantage of art galleries ranging from the major public spaces, to specialised commercial galleries to cutting-edge warehouse art galleries of the East End. The public art galleries like the British museum, the V&A and Tate Britain are must-sees for any visitors and since they are free, the permanent collections can be enjoyed on a drop-in basis rather than a full- scale tour (temporary art exhibitions may attract a charge). Commercial galleries with contemporary and modern art are found all over central London with a pocket of established art galleries in Cork Street off Piccadilly. Head east to Hoxton and beyond for the latest edgy art exhibitions in small workshops or converted industrial premises.

Top five art galleries in London: The British Museum London’s storehouse of art treasures from all eras and all parts of the world, from pre- Cycladic sculpture through Egyptian artefacts to contemporary art. Don’t try and take it all in in one go. White Cube The quintessential Hoxton gallery for contemporary work with art exhibitions by Britart luminaries like Tracy Emin, Damian Hirst and the Chapman Brothers. Dulwich Picture Gallery A trip off the beaten track to the first purpose-built art gallery in England, designed by Sir John Soane in 1811. It houses one of the world’s most important collections of European old master paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. Tate Modern A stunning collection of modern and contemporary art housed in a converted 1930s power station, itself a work of art. The turbine hall hosts large-scale sculpture and installations and there is a constantly evolving programme of art exhibitions. Maureen Paley Gallery owner Maureen Paley was one of the first and most innovative to blaze a trail in the East End. The gallery features contemporary art by British artists like Rebecca Warren, Gillian Wearing and Paul Noble.

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Scroll through our Pinterest board and see the many transformations of this space Tate Modern Performance Explore our visual article, packed with archival images, video and handwritten texts Admission information Entry details Admission to Tate Modern is free, except for special exhibitions . Become a Tate Member or a Patron and get free entry to all special exhibitions. Visitors with a disability pay a concessionary rate, and carers’ entrance is free. Under 12s go free (up to four per parent or guardian) and family tickets are available (two adults and two children 12–18 years) – see individual exhibitions for more information. Contact Us Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 Information 09.00–18.00, daily; Membership and ticketing services 9.45–18.00, daily Opening times Sunday to Thursday 10.00–18.00 Friday to Saturday 10.00–22.00 Last admission and ticket sales for special exhibitions Sunday – Thursday is at 17.15 and 21.15 on Friday – Saturday. Ticket desks close at this time.

We are closed 24–26 December, but open as usual on all other days of the year, including Bank Holidays and New Year’s Day. Southwark (Jubilee Line, 600 metres approx Blackfriars: District and Circle Line, 800 metres approx St Paul’s: Central Line, 1,100 metres approx. BY BUS Routes 45, 63 and 100 stop on Blackfriars Bridge Road Routes RV1 and 381 stop on Southwark Street Route 344 stops on Southwark Bridge Road BY TRAIN Blackfriars 300 metres from the South exit; 800 metres from the North exit. London Bridge 1,100 metres approx. BY BOAT The Tate Boat runs every forty minutes along the Thames between Tate Britain and Tate Modern . Other river services run between Millbank Pier and Bankside Pier. BY BIKE Cycle Hire Docking Stations are located on New Globe Street and Southwark Street. BY TAXI A drop off / pick up point is situated on Holland Street, just outside the main entrance. BY CAR There are no parking facilities at Tate Modern or in the surrounding streets.

Public transport is the easiest way of getting to the gallery. BY COACH A drop off / pick up point is situated on Southwark Street, a short walk from the main entrance. Accessibility There are five entrances to the gallery. Turbine Hall entrance on Holland Street There is a ramp into level 0 of the gallery A flight of steps with a handrail runs alongside the length of the ramp From here, there is escalator, lift and stair access to all levels River entrance on Queen’s Walks The river entrance is situated either side of the chimney base.

It provides access directly to level 1 From here there are lifts and staircase to all floors in the Boiler House Switch House entrance on Sumner Street The entrance is located on the south side of the building and it provides access directly to Level 1 From here there are lifts to Level 0 and access to the Boiler House via Level 1 Bridge There is an additional entrance on the south side of the building on Sumner Street with direct access to the Bar and Terrace shop From here there are lifts to all levels in the Switch House The two parts of the Tate Modern building: Boiler House and Switch House are connected on Level 0 through Turbine Hall, Level 1 Bridge and Level 4 Bridge Terrace entrance There is an additional entrance on the south side of the building on Sumner Street with direct access to the Bar and Terrace shop From here there are lifts to all levels in the Switch House Additional entrance to the Café There is an additional entrance to the Café on Level 1 next to the Turbine Hall entrance on Holland Street Boiler House and Switch House The two parts of the Tate Modern building: Boiler House and Switch House are connected on Level 0 through Turbine Hall, Level 1 Bridge and Level 4 Bridge Wheelchairs, prams and buggies Entry

 for wheelchairs, prams and buggies is via the River entrance, Café entrance or Switch House entrance Accessible car parking Parking spaces for disabled visitors to Tate Modern There are twelve parking spaces for disabled visitors to Tate Modern, located on south side of the building, accessed via Park Street at the eastern end of the building.

These spaces must be booked ahead. To book: Email ticketing@tate.org.uk (please note your name, contact details, date and time of visit are required to make the booking) Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 (daily 09.45–18.00) Once you have parked, please enter via the Switch House entrance across the level terrace, approximately 30 – 65 meters from the parking spaces. This entrance offers two lifts on the right as you enter, which go to level 0. If you have booked a scooter, wheelchair, or walker, these can also be collected from the Switch House entrance. Drop off points Back to menu Wheelchair and mobility scooter provision Ten wheelchairs and two electric scooters are available at the gallery. To reserve one, please book at least 24 hours in advance. You must have driven a mobility scooter before if you would like to use one at Tate Modern.

To book: • Email ticketing@tate.org.uk (please note your name, contact details, date and time of visit are required to make the booking) • Call +44 (0)20 7887 8888 (daily 09.45–18.00) Concessionary admission and carers entry for special exhibitions Admission to Tate Modern is free, but there is a charge for special exhibitions. Visitors with a disability pay a concessionary rate, and a companion/carers entrance is free. Details are available on each special exhibition page . Blind and visually impaired visitors Guide and hearing dogs We welcome guide dogs and hearing dogs in the gallery. A drinking bowl is available at the cloakroom on level 1 – just ask a member of staff. Large print captions and exhibition guides Large print captions are available at all special exhibitions at Tate Modern. Please ask at the Information desk. Audioguide The Tate Modern audioguide talks you through a selection of the most iconic works in the collection displays, including international paintings and sculptures spanning a century.

Each work is thoroughly described as the narrator draws your attention to each feature of the painting, sculpture or installation Description is followed by information about the artist and the context in which the work was made The tour allows you to choose your own route through the gallery and explore the collection independently You can pick up the audioguide from the Multimedia desk on level 1 and level 2. Audio described tours Audio described tours at Tate Modern guide visually impaired visitors through the ideas, materials and techniques of art since 1900. Visual description Find out whether an event at Tate Modern has visual description in the What’s on pages . Supported by the Lord Leonard and Lady Estelle Wolfson Foundation Deaf and hearing impaired visitors Hearing loops The following areas of Tate Modern are fitted with a hearing loop: Information desks Auditorium Hearing loops are also available on most gallery tours Find out whether an event at Tate Modern has a hearing loop in the What’s on pages . BSL talks A range of gallery talks, tours and events at Tate Modern are organised in or interpreted into BSL Find out whether an event at Tate Modern offers BSL interpretation in the Events at Tate Modern in the What’s on pages .

Signing Art training programme Signing Art was a training programme for Deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users interested in developing the skills needed to become gallery guides. The programme included sessions on; research skills for art, professionalism, and how to best present to a Deaf audience in a gallery setting. These three sessions have been replicated as videos here in BSL or with BSL translation throughout as a reference for those interested in learning more. Signing Art is supported by the Skills Funding Agency Back to menu Community groups Tate Modern offers events and workshops for a wide range of community groups. Attendees currently include mental health service users, homeless people, adults with learning difficulties and ESOL refugee groups. Back to menu Touch Tours Touch tours at Tate Modern introduce visually impaired visitors to the thematic arrangement of the displays. The tours engage with the ideas, materials and techniques of modern and contemporary art. Tours typically include a sculpture that can be explored through direct handling, and a number of other two and three-dimensional works which are explored using a combination of raised images, handling objects, description and discussion. There are four tours to choose from. Each one is based in a single suite of Tate Modern.

The content of the tours changes as the displays change; the following descriptions are a guide to what you can expect from each tour. Deafblind tours We can now offer bespoke touch tours to deafblind visitors. Book a touch tour Tours can be given at any time during normal gallery opening hours We ask that visitors book at least a week in advance, although it may be possible to arrange tours at shorter notice To book call +44 (0)20 7401 5113 To discuss arrangements for a tour call +44 (0)20 7401 5114 Tate Audio is sponsored by Bloomberg The Clore Information Room is supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation Facilities at Tate Modern Information desks Information desks are located near the River entrance, in the Turbine Hall and in the Clore Welcome Room on Level 0. Staff are happy to help with any questions you have. Toilets Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor.

On level 0 there is also a Changing Places toilet, which offers: Plenty of room for carers Full room coverage electric hoist equipment Height adjustable changing bench Height adjustable wash hand basin Non-slip floor Seating Baby changing facilities The Baby Care Room is found on level 0. Additional nappy-changing facilities are available in the toilets on each floor. Lifts There are four lifts in the Boiler House part of the building and eight in the Switch House, situated by the main stairs on each floor. There are also two lifts between levels 0 and 1 linking Switch House entrance and the Tickets and Information desks in the Turbine Hall. Cloakroom The cloakroom is on level 0. You may be requested to leave briefcases, bags, sticks or umbrellas in the cloakroom. Large bags and rucksacks must be placed in the cloakroom. Buggies can also be stored there, subject to space availability. There are plenty of self service lockers in the Tanks lobby on Level 0. Seating Stools are available in the galleries. They can be picked up from the concourses on levels 2, 3 and 4. Just ask a member of staff or at the Information desks if you would like to use them.

Benches can be found in a number of Tate Modern galleries. Additional seating is provided in the Turbine Hall and concourses. Restaurant, Café and Espresso Bar The Kitchen and Bar on level 6, Boiler House and the Restaurant on level 9, Switch House has waiter service. Café on level 1, Boiler House, Bar on level 1, Switch House and the Espresso Bars on level 2, Switch House and on level 3, Boiler House are all self-service but staff are happy to help if you need assistance. Tate Modern shops There are four shops at Tate Modern: the Terrace shop on level 1, Switch House the Turbine Hall shop on level 0, Boiler House the River Shop on level 1, Boiler House the Exhibition Shop on level 3, Boiler House Telephones Card and cash pay phones are situated on levels 0 and 1, under the staircase. Water fountains Katharine K Featured Having previously been to MOMA in New York, my expectations were high. The selection of art at the Tate is vast, housing works from the likes of Claude Monet to Marcel Duchamp.

It provides stables such as Picasso, Mondrian and Warhol, however, it offers only a single or small amount of works from each. The vastness of the Tate Modern is impressive, and allows works of art to be presented sparingly. This avoids crowding and allows whole rooms and specific lighting for individual artworks or bodies of work such as Mark Rothko's 'The Seagram Murals', Cildo Meireles' electronic 'Babel' and progressive 'Embryology' by Magdalena Abakanowicz. Yes, some of the artwork my just look like a urinal or a sown up potato, but if you read the artists' denotation you will surely be impressed. Helpful? Naomi Tastemaker Featured I was never much of a fan of the Tate on GCSE art trips down to London, finding that nothing really appealed to my tastes or even satisfied my basic understandings. But as I've grown up and studied art to a higher level, I don't mind the odd trip to browse around anymore, especially since the opening of the new building, which if nothing else offers panoramic views of London, a fabulous bar/cafe and a whole host of more interactive and lively exhibitions.

Still not my favourite place, but it's not as bad as I remember. Just watch to avoid really busy peak times! Helpful? L-J tastemaker Featured Looking fabulous Tate, this amazing pubic space has undergone a massive extension in the form of the switch house, and is currently the most visited modern art museum in the entire world, lucky us. As a Londoner and avid art fan, I would highly recommend becoming a member of the Tate, your membership covers the Tate Modern as well as the Tate Britain. Your annual membership gives you free and unlimited access to all exhibitions in both galleries which is phenomenal value. However the best part for me is the private members rooms in both galleries. At the Tate modern the members room is on the 5th floor of the Boiler house, with two private terraces one of the River towards St Paul's and one on the switch house extension side with views of the Shard. The members room has it's own restaurant serving fantastic lunches, wine, afternoon tea and coffee. You can pay the membership in 3 instalments by direct debit and you receive 3 months free. Win win - support the Tate. Helpful? GeorgeX Tastemaker Featured My favourite place in London!

Tate Modern is all about contemporary art - any kind of art; paintings, photos, videos, sculptures, immersive stuff. Here you will find one of the bigest collections of contemporary art from popular as well as new artists from all over the world. After June's new opening of the Switch House, the collections are now split between the old and the new building. The buidings by themselves are quite impressive having the brutalist architecture trend. Stunning views of St Paul Cathedral and Thames if you choose to sit for a coffee or food at the 6th floor of the old building (cheap prices here!) or stunning 360 views of London if you choose the 10th floor of the new building (no shop here - just balcony). If you choose the 10th floor, be aware; there are lifts going straight to the top, don't take the wrong lift going just to the middle of the building. A whole day is not enough to explore the place. Despite being quite open spaces and not over-stuffed with art objects all over the place, still there are a lot to explore either in the permanent or the temporary collections or even the really well equiped with modern art's books & items 2 x ground floor shops.

Helpful? Mei M Tastemaker Featured Tate Modern is one of my favourite places in London. I've been there a lot of times, I know some of its exhibitions by heart, but I never get bored. I'm very interested in modern & contemporary art, even the very controversial works, and the Tate Modern has so many things to see that I'm never disappointed. You will find very famous artists, and also less known ones. The gallery features any kind of artwork - paintings, photos, videos, interactive sculptures. I think even if you're not into art, you can still have some fun time there! I've recently visited the new part and the building is very interesting, another big plus is that from there you can enjoy a wonderful view of London :) Helpful? Hong-Anh Tastemaker Featured The new wing of the Tate Modern, the Switch House, feels like a bold and iconic addition to the London riverside and it feels very in-tune with the Tate Modern's popularity as a public space in itself. Two weeks after opening, it already feels like a tourist destination and undoubtedly this is due to the impressive 360 degree view of London that you get from the 10th floor terrace of the Switch House.

Access to the terrace is free but it certainly isn't easy. The Switch House has a bank of eight elevators but only four of these go to the 10th floor. It's nigh on impossible to get onto one of the 10th floor elevators at any floor past 0 - make sure you head to the basement to hitch a ride to the top. Helpful? Catia S Featured Going to Tate Modern on a saturday has always seemed to me a terrible idea however I've decided to adventure myself and get over the fear. I was more interested in knowing and seeing the buzz about the new Tate Modern extension: the Switch House. The Switch House is both the perfect extension and the perfect compliment to the original building the Boiler House. The war and industrial feeling in the Switch House is overpowering and this does not change as you go up the building (no wonder the ground floor has been named the Tanks). The rawness of the live performances and the exhibitions in the building not only match this overpowering sense but also give a certain sensuality to the Switch House experience.

These are particularly felt in the Tanks, where instruments just lay on the floor and where a group of five people move randomly across the room and in Louise Bourgeois ’s exhibition where sex, death, love and vulnerability are the main themes in a very intimist journey. I attempt to say let's forget the Boiler House for a while and explore the infinity possibilities in the Switch House. Helpful? Toni S Tastemaker Featured This past weekend saw the opening of the Tate Modern extension by Herzog & De Meuron (Architects). The opening brought visitors by the crowds, having said that though, there was ample space for visitors to circle the installations. The aptly named exhibition 'Between Object & Architecture', a free display spread across 3 floors, housed some interesting and interactive installations - definitely worth a visit. The building itself is a maze of considered transitional spaces and exhibition spaces that provide a neutral backdrop to the art installations. Make sure to visit the viewing level on the 10th floor that boasts a 360 view of London. Helpful? Izzy K Tastemaker Featured Tate Modern has always been one of my favourite art destinations in London, so I’d been really looking forward to the new opening of the Switch House.

The 10-floor building, designed by the architect Herzog & de Meuron, is truly impressive. The raw concrete bunker-like level 0 (called the ‘Tanks’) gives a false impression of a hard to navigate maze, but once you transition to the next level, it’s all clear, bright and organised. You will find the familiar themed rooms with some of the artworks you might have seen before in the old building. The highlights for me are the Louise Bourgeois room, Rebecca Horn’s sexy bondage pieces and of course Kusama’s 'Passing Winter' - a glass cube with holes, fitted with infinity mirrors – which I reckon will be the most instagrammable piece in this collection. The 360 degree view over London from the balcony on level 10 is stunning, as expected, but here the positives end. Despite the size of the extension, the number of artworks on display is very disappointing. When you get to level 4, you learn the remaining 6 levels are occupied by cafes, restaurants, event spaces, etc. It feels like there are more places for consumption than the actual exhibition rooms. And don’t try to use the lifts, they are absolutely useless.

We tried to get to level 10 from level 4, but despite trying with multiple lifts, all of the ones going from 0 up would not stop. The same happened on the way back. People were trying to get out on various floors but the lift would just go straight down to 0. Let’s hope that it’s just the beginning and the space will live up to its potential. For now, I’ll stick to the old good power station. Helpful? Danilo Reis tastemaker Featured I've always regarded the Tate Modern as a big middle finger sticking out, both in terms of architecture and content. Yesterday I went to check the new extension and was very pleased to see how it blends in nicely with the original power station where the museum has been housed since 2000. The artwork on display was very varied and interesting, with art from South America, Africa and Asia which is very refreshing indeed. A lot of the art required the viewer's interaction but some of it was there only to be displayed, such as Marina Abramovic's Rhythm 0 table, which was originally part of a performance. This certainly alters the original impact and meaning of the artwork, a challenge that the institution has not been able to overcome yet.

This also confirms Tate Modern's role a museum in the traditional sense, with the aim of educating and informing the viewer. My friend said that some of the art on display was unworthy of such an important museum but I enjoyed it all thoroughly! Helpful? Aude tastemaker Featured Art is subjective but I really find the Tate a bit disappointing. I may not understand Modern art, but I think the museum is not showing the best part of it. It may look a bit small compared to the size of the building as well, but with the works nearly over, I will have to give it a try again. The good point in the Tate, because yes there is one, is its terrace! It offers an amazing view on St Paul Cathedral and on the Thames! You can do not fancy Modern Art, but at least go there for the view. Helpful? Olivier Featured After not having been for a while (which is a disgrace considering I only live a 10min walk from the museum) I ventured back across the Millennium Bridge to see if any of the permanent exhibitions had been updated and was I in for a treat! It started with the very interesting art project in the turbine hall by Abraham Cruzvillages.

The artist pretty much created a suburban allotment on stilts. The biggest surprise however was to be found on the first floor which had been re-curated entirely. On one half it still had the Citizens and States with the likes of Picasso, but with a lot of new works from for example Mondriaan which I had never seen at Tate Modern before. The most interesting exhibition however was the "Making Traces" show in which Mark Rothko's works found a new home. I have missed those pieces since the took them away from the public eye a while ago. Please do me a favour and go visit Tate Modern to discover the new first floor! You'll Love it! Helpful? Tom Bruce Tastemaker Featured A grand industrial building turned modern art exhibition palace, the Tate Modern has prime positioning on the Thames Southbank directly opposite St Paul's cathedral. It's free, it's wonderful, it's absolutely massive (and, with a staggeringly large sail boat-looking extension being added as I write, about to be even more so) and it has a couple of cheeky Warhols and Hockneys. Unfortunately, the paid entry seasonal exhibitions are a bit out of the recently graduated student's price range.

The curators will also never beat the time when they had gigantic usable metal slides installed which ran from the rafters to the ground floor. Now that was art! The number of ridiculously good looking fashionistas per square foot of London positively sky rockets upon entering the Tate Modern. Every beard is groomed, every eyebrow plucked, every pair of jeans tight, every set of cheekbones chiseled, every tattoo a work of art. As a friend noted at the time, we were "the ugliest people in the entire gallery". It's as though their genes were better. And you can't compete with DNA. You just can't. Why mention these people in a review, though? Well, because the real art is in the reaction of the viewer to the art. Just as it is more fascinating to watch an artist at work than to view the finished product, it is more enjoyable to examine how human strangers interact with the space and art around them. We are all art. One gallery piece, a rectangular mirror, makes this exact point. But I had formed this theory before we came to the mirror part, I swear it. Below is the only picture I took at the Tate this last Friday - I just found the separations satisfying. Ah, culture.

Helpful? Kritt N Tastemaker Featured If you love contemporary art, then there's no better to place spend your day than the Tate Gallery. Since being converted from a power station, the Tate Modern houses some of the finest collection in contemporary and modern over seven floors and organizes special exhibition for gallery members and for those with ticket. The cafe on the second floor is well worth a visit for it's stunning view across the Thames, the Millennium Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral and the the gallery shop is well worth a visit too, for a vast array or gift ideas from the wacky to the inspirational. It's easy to reach from London Bridge and like most London galleries, is free. Well worth a visit. Helpful? Ben C moderator Featured Visiting the other day, I was struck by how easy it was to move through the rooms and leave totally unchanged, uninspired or in any way enlightened about the stuff that makes life interesting. It's a shame because the space is fantastic, and there are some genuine highlights (in the permanent collection, the Cy Twombly and Giuseppe Penone sculptures, Meredith Frampton's stunning portrait of Marguerite Kelsey).

NB I did't see the temporary exhibitions this time, so not counting them in this. The new wing they're building wont' solve this problem - the Tate needs either better art, or a better "story", to use the language of our time, not necessarily more art. Everyone else rightly picks up on the great venue itself - cafes, locations, stuff for kids: I completely agree with that. If you're looking for something to do with friends or kids for a few hours, then its great. Just not for a fresh and challenging experience of art. Helpful? kim r Featured One of my favourite places in London- getting there is a treat, either across the Millennium bridge with its stunning views down the river and back to St Pauls, or along the Thames past The Globe or the great eateries. Once there at the Tate Modern, there is always at least one top class exhibition to see- currently Matisse or Richard Hamilton (I preferred the latter). The room are well curated with a mixture of styles and the guided talks are well worth the investment, Book shop is great and the café gives you the opportunity to sit in the fresh air and look across at the Thames & St Pauls Helpful?

Malcolm Featured Tate's great, two simple words that sum up this place, My sister updates my membership each Christmas and it truly is the gift that keeps on giving. I always enter via the millennium bridge so I can see the new London (Shard) verses the old (St Pauls). The latest suprise was the new room dedicated to the American great photographer William Eggleston and as my friend Susie says Billys work reminds her of one of her all time favourite quotes from Camille Pissaro “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing”. Truly recommended. I'm devoted to the mans work and I'll say it again the Tate is great. Helpful? Tate Modern - Lipton Rogers Tate Modern Major Challenges • Creative Solutions • Exceptional Results MAJOR CHALLENGES Despite its bold, uncompromising appearance and vast, awkward spaces, this old power station was a very interesting development prospect in the midst of London’s tourist hub. In addition, the location lacked connectivity to the north side of the river. CREATIVE SOLUTIONS The importance of the building’s evocative architectural aesthetic was recognised and so the exterior was barely changed by its redevelopment.

The vast turbine hall hosts annual installations as an elegant solution to its massive scale. A top floor restaurant provides excellent views of London and is a destination in its own right. EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS This modern art gallery has become a hugely popular destination, now linked to Central London by The Millennium Bridge. In 2012 alone, Tate Modern attracted 5m visitors. Its exterior continues to be an important feature of the London skyline. Tate Modern InfoBritain - Travel Through History In The UK : Tate Modern Tate Modern, London The Tate Modern art gallery opened in May 2000, in a former power station, on the Thames' south bank opposite St Paul's . The old Bankside power station, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, is a wonderful location for a modern art gallery. There was criticism during its construction that an opportunity had been missed to create an exciting new building in London. But it could also be said that for a modern art gallery the old Bankside power station is an inspired choice. Much modern art reflects the modern world's industrial nature, and the Bankside power station is a huge industrial building. Lighting comes from deep ceiling boxes, so that clean lines are maintained.

The floors are either rough-cut unpolished oak, or polished concrete. There is a great variety of gallery space, from the vast Turbine Hall, to small, intimate, individual rooms. There is both a feeling of uniformity, and of individuality, a sense of quality reproduced on a huge scale. For the American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright mass production made it possible for the poor as well as the rich to "enjoy beautiful surface treatments and clean strong forms". The work of individual craftsmen was too expensive for most people to buy, but with mass production, many more individuals could enjoy quality products once only available to the rich. In 1943 Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum in New York to display his vision. The Tate Modern in its beautiful industrial setting expresses, and explores, a similar vision. Embankment by Rachel Whiteread, Turbine Hall 2005 When I first visited the Tate Modern in 2005, the Turbine Hall had been given over to a work by Rachel Whiteread. The great open space of the hall was full of pristine white boxes piled up in various ways, with little twisting alleys running between them.

There was a sense of uniformity, along with a feeling of variety. The boxes themselves seemed to invite you to wonder what might be inside each one. Modern mass production gives everyone a similar box, and yet variety remains. In a way it is impossible for everything to be the same, because people will look at uniformity itself in different ways. Some will see security, dependability, and some will see monotony and boredom. Some will see good things and some bad. Variety builds itself up using crazy piles of identical white boxes. Many other exhibits invite reflection on life in the modern world. There are so many art works on display, and they change so frequently, that there are countless experiences you might have walking through the galleries. I offer the following little response as an example of what might go through your mind at the Tate Modern: Walking through the Andy Warhol gallery I stopped in front of his "Factory" studio productions. Lots of Marilyn Monroes looked at me. Repetitive screen printed images were reminiscent of frames on a reel of film. She appeared desperately miserable. Her misery was accentuated by all those photos, as though she was a fragile woman caught in the wheels of a factory churning her out for consumption.

Strangely though the pain was also lessened by repetition. The images caught one desperate moment, while their repetitive nature suggested that time moves on. As pain is churned out again and again, it cannot maintain that pitch of emotion. Even as pain continued it seemed to ebb away. The opposite was true of a picture showing a series of pictures of Elvis in an exuberant moment during a performance. The images caught one ecstatic moment that went on and on. Ecstasy of course can't be churned out like that, and as my eye ran over Warhol's Elvis images, the joy of a moment faded into something more peaceful. Eating in the Tate Modern 7th floor restaurant Entry to the Tate Modern is free, and there are facilities to make a donation if you wish. There is a book shop and refreshment facilities. Wonderful views across London are to be had from the top floor. Interestingly some scenes from Bridget Jones's Diary were filmed at the Tate Modern.

Question: The Turbine Hall, which hosts artwork of vast scale, is in which London art gallery?
Answer: The Tate Modern