Tate Britain

Tate Britain is a museum of British art that gathers works created from the beginning of the 16th century up to modern times. Permanent exhibitions show the works of British artists. Exhibitions devoted to, among others, exhibitions are displayed separately. John Latham, Tracey Emin or Douglas Gordon. You can also see the work of Francis Bacon, William Blake and John Everett Millais.

The museum was founded in 1897 on the initiative of Henry Tate. Until the early 1930s, it functioned as the National Gallery of British Art. It was only afterwards that they were called the Tate Gallery, and in 2000 they were renamed, this time to Tate Britain. Currently, apart from Tate Modern, Tate St Ives and Tate Liverpool, it is one of the four branches of the Tate network.

The facility is located in central London, where the prison was once located. During the war in the 1940s, the building was severely damaged, but most of the collections survived intact.