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      • The cost was £134m to make the conversion to an art gallery and was completed in 2000 when it opened to the public.
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  2. In total, the conversion of the Bankside Power Station into an art gallery cost £134 million. The Millennium Commission gave the project £50 million, English Partnerships provided £12 million for the purchase of the site, and Arts Council England gave £6.2 million towards the conversion of Level 4 into temporary exhibition space.

  3. The power station, later known as Bankside A, was extended several times as the demand for electricity grew. An engine room, 230 ft (70 m) long and 50 ft (15 m) wide, was built in 1893 with two 200 kW, two 350 kW and two 400 kW alternators driven by Willans engines. The associated boiler house was the same length and had nine Babcock and Wilcox ...

  4. Aug 6, 2018 · The cost was £134m to make the conversion to an art gallery and was completed in 2000 when it opened to the public. Loading... Bankside Power Station was built in two phases between 1947 and 1963. It replaced a previous power station.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Tate_ModernTate Modern - Wikipedia

    Tate St Ives. Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, defined as from after 1900, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. [2] It is located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside ...

  6. Jul 22, 2019 · One of these was the Millennium Fund which aimed to support projects of national importance to mark the millennium. 59 The projected cost to convert Bankside to Tate MOMA (later Tate Modern) was about £80 million and it was envisaged that about half of this could be obtained from the Millennium Fund with the rest from private donations. 60 By ...

  7. The power station was one of several built in the twentieth century on the banks of the River Thames in London to use coal from north-east England that was delivered by ship. It was designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built in stages from 1947. After the station closed in 1982, the five-storey turbine hall, 156 m long and 35 m high, was ...

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