Tate Modern
#12🎨 Modern & ContemporaryLondon, United Kingdom

Tate Modern

Bankside power station turned global icon

About the museum

Britain's national museum of international modern and contemporary art, housed in the converted Bankside Power Station with the dramatic Turbine Hall as its centrepiece.

Must-see highlights

  • ◆Turbine Hall commissions
  • ◆Rothko's Seagram Murals
  • ◆Matisse Cut-Outs
  • ◆Picasso's Weeping Woman
  • ◆Switch House viewing terrace
  • ◆Free permanent collection

Recognition

🏆 AECOM Top 10🏆 Free entry

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