Tate Britain

Tate Britain

Turner to Hockney, British art without the crowds

⚠ Use Atterbury Street entrance

Hours

Daily 10am-6pm, closed 24-26 Dec, last entry about 5:30pm

Tickets

Permanent collection free; special exhibitions ticketed

Address

On the Thames north bank; the Millbank entrance is closed for now, so use the Manton entrance on Atterbury Street

Where Tate Modern is contemporary, this is five hundred years of British art. The rooms run in time order, with a dedicated room of Turner's hazy seascapes and the Pre-Raphaelite Ophelia, and it carries on to Hockney and Francis Bacon in the twentieth century. The permanent collection is free, so it suits a rainy hour or two. The riverside walk north toward Parliament makes a good follow-up.