Tate

The original Tate Gallery, now renamed Tate Britain

Tate Modern opened in 2000.

Tate Liverpool opened in 1988.

Tate St Ives opened in 1993.

The Tate is the United Kingdom's national museum of British and Modern Art. It is a group of four art galleries in England:

• Tate Britain (opened in 1897 and renamed in 2000)
• Tate Liverpool (1988),
• Tate St Ives (1993)
• Tate Modern (2000).

There is a website, Tate Online (1998). It is administered as a quango (a non-departmental public body).Tate is used as the name for the corporation which was started as The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery.

The gallery was started in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. When its role was changed to include Modern Art it was renamed the Tate Gallery after Henry Tate. The Tate Gallery was first started in a building at Millbank, London on the Embankment. In 2000, the Tate Gallery split its collection into four museums:

• Tate Britain (in the original building) displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day;
• Tate Modern, 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 a connection with the local area. All four museums share the Tate Collection.

One of the Tate's most publicised art events is the awarding of the annual Turner Prize, which takes place at Tate Britain.

Tate Online

Tate Online is the Tate's web site. Since its launch in 1998, the site has had information on all four Tate galleries (Tate Britain, Tate St Ives, Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern) in the same website. Tate Online helps visitors with get ready to visit the galleries, but is also a gallery as well. Other resources include information on all works in Tate's Collection of British and Modern International art, e-learning for all visitors, over 400 hours of webcasts, all articles from the magazine Tate Etc, and a series of Internet art works. BT has sponsored Tate Online since 2001.

How it is run

The Tate gets money every year from the Department for Culture, Media & Sport. It is run by a board of trustees. Under the Charities Act 1993. the Tate is a tax-exempt charity. An entry fee is charged for all special collections, and there is a membership system to attract regular visitors.

Related pages

• Turner Prize

Other websites

• Tate Online — 65,000 works from the Tate Collection online, information on Tate's exhibitions and events programmes, and online learning resources.
• TATE ETC. Magazine Archived 2008-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Turner Worldwide Archived 2008-06-20 at the Wayback Machine - an ongoing online cataloguing of JMW Turner's work around the world.
• Turner Collection Online Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine The online catalogue of Tate's collection of nearly 300 oil paintings and 30,000 works on paper by JMW Turner.
• Tate Gallery Records Archived 2008-05-25 at the Wayback Machine Tate's own historical records.
• Tate Podcasts Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine Audio and video podcasts from Tate.
• Tate in Space
• Turner Museum Archived 2010-02-16 at the Wayback Machine