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Daily 10am-5.50pm; free; www.tate.org.uk; Tube: Pimlico. Founded in 1897 with money from Sir Henry Tate, inventor of the sugar cube, the purpose-built Tate Gallery, half a mile south of parliament, is now devoted exclusively to British art. With the new Tate Modern now established in the disused Bankside Power Station, the original building on Millbank has now been rechristened Tate Britain . As well as displaying British art from 1500 to 2000, plus a whole wing devoted to Turner, Tate Britain also showcases contemporary British artists and continues to sponsor the Turner Prize, the country's most prestigious modern-art prize.
The Tate offers audioguides to the displays for GBP3.
The galleries are rehung more or less annually, but will always include a fair selection of works by British artists such as Hogarth, Constable, Gainsborough, Reynolds and Blake, plus foreign artists like van Dyck who spent much of their career over here. The ever-popular Pre-Raphaelites are always well represented, as are established twentieth-century greats such as Stanley Spencer and Francis Bacon alongside living artists such as David Hockney and Lucien Freud. Lastly, don't miss the Tate's outstanding Turner collection , displayed in the Clore Gallery.
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