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Tate Modern

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Tate Modern
Tate Modern

The Weather Project
Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project in the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern
Tate Modern is Britain's new national museum of modern art in London and, along with the Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives a part of the Tate Gallery.

It is housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect responsible for Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron. Since its opening on May 12, 2000 it has become a very popular destination for Londoners and tourists.

Galleries are located on the third, fourth and fifth floors of the building. Thematically-arranged exhibitions from the gallery's permanent collection are located on the third and fifth floors, while temporary exhibitions are located on the fourth floor. The main hall of the building, which originally housed the power station's turbine is also used for temporary exhibitions.

For the first five years, following the gallery's opening, the turbine hall was used to display specially-commissioned work by contemporary artists, in a series sponsored by Unilever.

Artists to have exhibited specially-commissioned work in the turbine hall are:

The gallery can be accessed by crossing the London Millennium Bridge which links it with St Paul's Cathedral. The closest tube station is Southwark.

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