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| Established | 1897 |
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| Location | Millbank London, SW1 |
| Coordinates | 51°29′27″N 0°07′38″W / 51.490833°N 0.127222°W |
| Visitors | 525,144 (2021)[1] |
| Director | Alex Farquharson[2] |
| Public transit access |  Pimlico |
| Website | tate.org.uk |
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Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England.[3] It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Founded by Sir Henry Tate, it houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The museum had 525,144 visitors in 2021, an increase of 34 percent from 2020 but still well below pre- COVID-19 pandemic levels. In 2021 it ranked 50th on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.[4]
- ^ "The Art Newspaper list of most-visited art museums in 2020, March 28,2022
- ^ Press Release: New Director of Tate Britain Appointed, Tate online, 29 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ Tate. "History of Tate". Tate. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ The Art Newspaper, 28 March, 2022