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Place were you can relax and feed your brain. Definitely worth visit London, Tate Britain

The Tate Modern in London is Britain’s national museum of and is, with , , Tate St Ives, and Tate Online, part of the group now known simply as Tate.

London, Tate Britain

London, Tate Britain


The galleries are housed in the former Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed by , the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. The power station closed in 1981. The building was converted by architects Herzog & de Meuron, after which it stood at 99m tall. The southern third of the building was retained by the French power company EDF Energy as an electrical substation (in 2006, the company released half of this holding)[1]. Since the museum’s opening on 12 May 2000, it has become a very popular destination for Londoners and tourists. Entry to collection displays and some temporary exhibitions is free.


London, Tate Britain GPS coordinates: 51°30′28″N, 0°05′57″W


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London, British Museum

This is really one of best museous in the World.
The British Museum in London is one of the world’s greatest of and culture. Its collections, which number more than 13 million objects from all continents, illustrate and document the story of from its beginning to the present.
The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist . The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in , on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum () in in 1887. Until 1997, when the opened to the public, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national and a national library in the same building. Its present chairman is Boyd and its director is .

Coordinates: 51.5186° -0.126°

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