Tate

After hearing about the Tate Museum so many times in class I was very curious as to what it is and what type of art is included throughout this gallery so I researched it and began to learn about the museum. The gallery was founded in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. When its role was changed to include the national collection of Modern Art as well as the national collection of British art, it was renamed the Tate Gallery after Henry tate, the foundations for the collection. The Tate Gallery was housed in the current building occupied by Tate Britain which is situated in Millbank, London. In 2000, the Tate Gallery transformed itself into the current-day Tate, which consists of a federation of four museums: Tate Britain which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day; Tate Modern which is also in London, houses the Tate's collection of British and International Modern and Contemporary Art from 1900 to the present day. Tate Liverpool, in Liverpool has the same purpose as Tate Modern but on a smaller scale, and Tate St Ives displays Modern and Contemporary Art by artists who have connections with the area. The Tate modern is made up of 5 levels. Level 1 and 2 are used to display large specially-commissioned works by contemporary artists and level 2 is a smaller gallery located on the north side of the building which houses exhibitions of cutting edge contemporary art. Its exhibitions normally run for 2 – 3 months. Levels 3, 4 and 5 have Material Gestures, poetry and dream, and level 5 had energy and process, while level 4 is broken into two large exhibition areas. This is used to stage the major temporary exhibitions for which an entry fee is charged.