Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a major national gallery of international modern and contemporary art, located on the south bank of the River Thames in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. The gallery occupies the former Bankside Power Station, a massive 1950s brick building designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and converted by architects Herzog and de Meuron, opening as a gallery in 2000. The Turbine Hall, a vast open space at the centre of the building, regularly hosts major commissioned art installations and is one of the most visited free attractions in the United Kingdom.