The Tate Modern Gallery significantly expands its exhibition space

London - The London National Museum of Modern Art Tate Modern has expanded its exhibition space by 60 percent, allowing it to simultaneously showcase 800 works from 300 artists. This was announced by museum representatives who presented the new exhibition spaces of Tate Modern to journalists on Tuesday. The spaces will open to the public on Friday.

The new building takes the form of a modern pyramid 70 meters high. It was designed by the famous Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, who are also the authors of the main building of the Museum of Modern Art, which was created in 2000 by reconstructing a former power station.

The original spaces were built for two million visitors per year, but the museum recorded up to 5.7 million visitors in recent years, making the exhibitions crowded. The expansion cost 260 million pounds (about 8.9 billion CZK), clarified the Tate Gallery group, which includes not only Tate Modern but also Tate Britain, Tate St. Ives, and Tate Liverpool.

In September 2011, contemporary Czech art was presented for the first time in the Tate Modern gallery - the project by Kateřina Šedá titled From I Cannot See to I Cannot See.