Tate Liverpool
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Image:Albert Docks Liverpool.jpg The Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a branch of the Tate Gallery, along with the Tate St Ives, Cornwall, the Tate Britain, London, and the Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporation.The Tate Liverpool is the National Collection of Modern Art in the north of England, and for a time was the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art outside London.
The gallery is housed in a converted warehouse within the Albert Dock on Liverpool's waterfront. The original conversion was done by James Stirling but this proved unpopular with staff and visitors and the building was given a major refurbishment in 1998.
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