London
London
+ Central London
Sights
* Apsley House
* Banqueting House
* BBC Experience
* British Airways London Eye
* Buckingham Palace
* Cabinet War Rooms
* Chelsea
* Clink Exhibition
* Courtauld Gallery
* Design Museum
* Dickens House Museum
* Docklands
* Fleet Street
* Guildhall
* Hampstead
* Harrods
* HMS Belfast
* Highgate
* Hyde Park
* Imperial War Museum
* Inns of Court
* Jermyn Street
* Jewel Tower
* Kensington Palace and Kensington Gardens
* Kenwood House
* Leighton House
* Lloyd's Building
* London Aquarium
* London Dungeon
* London Planetarium
* London Transport Museum
* London Zoo
* Madame Tussaud's
* Monument
* Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green
* Museum of London
* National Army Museum
* National Portrait Gallery
* Oxo Tower
* Piccadilly Circus
* Regent's Park
* Royal Academy (of Arts)
* St Bartholomew-the-Great
* St Bride
* St James's Palace
* St James's Park
* St James's Piccadilly
* St James's Street
* St Katharine's Dock
* St Stephen Walbrook
* Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition
* Sir John Soane's Museum
* Soho
* Southwark Cathedral
* Spencer House
* Tate Britain and Tate Modern
* Theatre Museum
* Tower Bridge
* Trafalgar Square
* Wallace Collection
* Westminster Cathedral
* Whitehall
* Winston Churchill's Britain at War
Vicinity
+ Vicinity
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Do not miss )
In 2000 the Tate Gallery, one of London's great artistic institutions, split into two - Tate Britain and Tate Modern.
Tate Britain occupies the original Millbank site and retains its function as the showcase of British art from 1500 to the present. Its new entrance, exhibition space and galleries are due to open in Summer 2001. It is impossible to say what will be on display at any one time as exhibits go in and out of storage and are also rotated to provincial Tate museums. However the highlight of the British collection is the Turner Bequest, comprising many of the finest works of JMW Turner, regarded by many as Britain's greatest landscape painter. The Tate Britain has a superb collection of High Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite pictures and the often controversial Turner Prize also remains here.
Tate Modern,
housed in Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's formidable Bankside Power Station, on the South Bank of the Thames opposite St Paul's, opened in summer 2000. It is not only the first major new museum in the capital for over a century but also one of the most important contemporary galleries in the world, devoted to art post-1900. Look out for works by Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Duchamp, Bacon, Rothko and Warhol.
Tate Britain
Address: MillbankPhone: (020) 7887 8000 Recorded information (020) 7887 8008 WEBSITE: www.tate.org.uk
Open: Daily 10-5:50
Restaurant: Tate Café (Inexpensive); Tate Restaurant (Expensive) Phone: (020) 7887 8825
Metro: Westminster
Accessible: Excellent
Admission: Free (charge for exhibitions)
Practical: Free guided tours Mon-Sat 11, 12, 2, 3. TateInform personal audio guide (cheap). Art Trolley activities for children (aged 4+) Sun 2-5. Shuttle service by bus and boat to Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Address: BanksidePhone: As above
Open: Daily 10-6 (Fri, Sat open until 10pm)
Restaurant: Tate Café (Inexpensive); Tate Restaurant (Expensive)
Metro: Southwark
Accessible: Excellent
Admission: Free
Practical: Footbridge from St Paul's Cathedral. Shuttle service by bus and boat to Tate Britain
| COUNTRY |
| Britain |
| REGION |
| CITIES |
| London
|
| Viewing |
| Top Ten |
| What To See |
| Where To ... |
| Practical Matters |
| Edinburgh |
| Oxford |
| York |
| MAPS |
| World |
| Europe |
| TRAVEL BOOK |
 |