Tate Britain

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Standing alongside the River Thames at Millbank, the Tate opened in 1897 on a donation from its principal benefactor, the sugar magnate, Sir Henry Tate. Today the Gallery houses one of the world's most important art collections, including paintings by Hogarth, Gainsborough and Reynolds. The modern collection encompasses works from Braque and Picasso to David Hockney and Roy Lichtenstein. In the adjoining Clore Gallery is the Turner collection with some 200 oil paintings and many drawings bequeathed to the nation by Britain's greatest artist. J M W Turner.

Admission to the free collection displays at Tate Britain and Tate Modern is unticketed.

Opening times

Monday to Sunday 10.00–18.00

Tate Britain

Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

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Image credits: (painting) Dante Gabriel Rossetti La Ghirlandata 1873 Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London

Tate Britain, Millbank façade 1 Photocredit: Tate Photography, Rikard Osterlund

Tate Britain, Manton entrance Photocredit: Tate Photography

Tate Britian Rotunda Photocredit: Tate Photography

Tate Britain, glass ceiling of the Rotunda Photocredit: Tate Photography

Tate Britain Duveen Galleries Photocredit: Tate Photography, Rikard Osterlund