Tate Modern
A riverside power station whose five-storey generator hall now swallows room-filling artworks.
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Herzog & de Meuron converted Giles Gilbert Scott's oil-fired power station (built 1947–1963) into the home of Britain's national collection of art made since 1900.
What to look for
- The Turbine Hall: 3,400 m², five storeys, the old generator chamber you enter down a ramp — home to the giant annual commission (Eliasson's indoor sun, Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds, Salcedo's floor crack).
- The single 99 m (325 ft) chimney atop the 200 m brick-clad building, near the Millennium Bridge over the Thames.
- The Tanks — three former underground oil tanks, now raw circular concrete rooms for live and installation art.
Collection displays are free; only temporary exhibitions are ticketed. The Turbine Hall commission runs roughly October–March.
Tate Modern is one of 40 sights worth the detour in London, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the London pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in London
- British MuseumThe room where a dead language got its voice back — and you walk in for free.
- Buckingham PalaceThe balcony where a whole country turns up to watch a family wave — with 775 rooms behind it.
- Westminster AbbeyNearly every English monarch since 1066 has been crowned on the same worn patch of floor.
- Big BenThe clang in a thousand establishing shots comes from a cracked bell that's rung slightly off-key since 1859.
- Tower of LondonWilliam the Conqueror's keep turned royal prison, where two queens lost their heads and the Crown Jewels still sit under guard.
- Tower BridgeA Victorian drawbridge dressed as a Gothic castle, its roadway still splitting open for passing ships.