New Tate Modern by Herzog & de Meuron opened to the public on Friday. Do you know what New Tate Modern exhibits inside? The new Tate Modern is a new place with new art, to learn and create, and a new view of the world. The Switch House, a new ten-storey building, has created space for a collection that is more ''international, diverse and engaging'', will be directed by Frances Morris, new director of Tate Modern. It also offers breath-taking 360 views of London from its viewing platform.

Magdalena Abakanowicz Embryology 1978-80 Burlap, cotton gauze, hemp rope, nylon and sisal Overall display dimensions variable Presented anonymously 2009. Image © Magdalena Abakanowicz

The Switch House increases the size of Tate Modern by 60% and offers a huge new variety of experiences for visitors. They range from the subterranean concrete Tanks, the first permanent museum spaces dedicated to live art, to new spaces for Learning and the magnificent panoramic public viewing terrace on Level 10, offering a completely new perspective on London. The Turbine Hall now becomes the central space of the museum.

Magdalena Abakanowicz Embryology 1978-80 Burlap, cotton gauze, hemp rope, nylon and sisal Overall display dimensions variable Presented anonymously 2009. Image © Magdalena Abakanowicz

Much-loved masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko and Henri Matisse, are joined by recent acquisitions from around the world which open out the history of modernism. These include 1930s photography by Lionel Wendt from Sri Lanka, 1950s collage by Benode Behari Mukherjee from India, and 1960s sculpture by Saloua Raouda Choucair from Lebanon. There are also major works of contemporary art, including a giant tower of 800 radios by Cildo Meireles from Brazil, a room full of human hair and car bumpers by Sheela Gowda from India, a tapestry of thousands of bottle tops by El Anatsui from Ghana and an immersive 8-screen film installation by Apichatpong Weerasethakul from Thailand.

Installation view of Abstraction and Society Photo courtesy Tate Photography

The opening was celebrated by free live performances, new commissions and a host of other special events. Three weeks of live art will animate the displays. This free programme, part of the BMW Tate Live partnership, includes work from Tate’s collection staged intermittently throughout the building, from Tania Bruguera’s police on horseback to Tino Sehgal’s gallery attendants bursting into song. The Tanks will host new performance commissions running every day from 17 June to 3 July 2016, highlighting the place of live art in the 21st century museum. 

Ai Weiwei (born 1957) Tree 2010, 6800 x 2559 x 2559 mm. Image © Ai Weiwei Studio; Courtesy Lisson Gallery

Digital technologies are now more fully integrated into the experience of Tate Modern than ever before, through an expansion of the Bloomberg Connects initiative. In partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, who have supported Tate Modern since it first opened in 2000, Tate has created new interactive spaces and an innovative new app to bring the museum's collection to wider audiences in new ways. These are joined by the Timeline of Modern Art touchscreen and the popular Digital Drawing Bar, as well as Tate Shots, the hugely successful online series of weekly short films.

Cildo Meireles Babel 2001 Found analogue radios and metal Purchased jointly by Tate, London (with the assistance of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee) and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, 2013, as a promised gift to Tate © The artist

Later this year Tate will launch Tate Exchange, an ambitious ‘open experiment’ occupying an entire floor of the new Switch House building. Over 50 organisations will participate in Tate Modern’s creative process for the very first time, running events and projects on site and using art as a way of addressing wider issues in the world around us. The programme will bring together artists such as Guerrilla Girls and Tim Etchells alongside charities, community radio stations, universities and healthcare trusts. 

Cildo Meireles Babel 2001 Found analogue radios and metal Purchased jointly by Tate, London (with the assistance of the Latin American Acquisitions Committee) and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, 2013, as a promised gift to Tate © The artist

The displays have been curated by the curatorial team at Tate Modern led by Frances Morris, Director; Matthew Gale, Head of Displays; Ann Coxon, Curator, Displays & International Art; Mark Godfrey, Senior Curator, International Art; Catherine Wood, Senior Curator, International Art (Performance); Andrea Lissoni, Senior Curator, International Art (Film); and Simon Baker, Senior Curator, International Art (Photography).

Installation view of Between Object and Architecture Photo courtesy Tate Photography

Tate Modern opened to the public in May 2000. Located in the former Bankside Power Station, it is the world’s most popular museum of modern and contemporary art, attracting around 5 million visitors each year. It is one of four Tate galleries around the country, and part of a wider network of partner institutions – the Plus Tate network – which champions the visual arts in the UK. Tate manages a growing national collection of over 70,000 works of art, acquired and cared for on behalf of the public and shown in venues throughout the UK and across the world.

Installation view of Expanded Painting Photo courtesy Tate Photography

Sheela Gowda Behold 2009 Human hair and car bumpers Overall display dimensions variable Purchased with funds provided by the South Asia Acquisitions Committee 2014. Image © Sheela Gowda

Cristina Iglesias Pavilion Suspended in a Room I 2005 Steel 1830 x 1200 x 15 mm displayed: 2400 x 3300 x 4700 mm Tate. Purchased with assistance from Tate International Council 2006. Image © Cristina Iglesias

Jane Alexander African Adventure 1999-2002. Image © Copyright the artist

Installation view of Artist Rooms: Joseph Beuys Photo courtesy Tate Photography © DACS, 2016

Installation view of Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois Photo courtesy Tate Photography © The Easton Foundation

Gustav Metzger Liquid Crystal Environment 1965, remade 2005 5 control units, liquid crystals and slide, 35 mm, 5 projections, colour 22 min overall display dimensions variable Purchased 2006. Image © Gustav Metzger

Installation view of Modern Times Photo courtesy Tate Photography

Installation view of Pop Myths Photo courtesy Tate Photography

Roni Horn Pink Tons 2009 Glass 1100 x 1200 x 1200 mm, 4514 kg Purchased with funds provided by Tate Americas Foundation, the North American Acquisitions Committee, the Art Fund, Tate Members, Tate Patrons, the artist and with additional assistance from Dominque Levy in honor of Dorothy Berwin 2016 © Roni Horn, courtesy Hauser & Wirth, London. Image by Tate Photography

Top image: Installation view of Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois Photo courtesy Tate Photography © The Easton Foundation

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