Clore Learning Centre at Tate Modern Reopens
The Clore Learning Centre at Tate Modern, located alongside the Turbine Hall, re-opens with a suite of newly revitalised spaces. Architects Herzog and de Meuron have worked closely with Tate’s Learning team to rework the gallery’s learning spaces, allowing visitors more opportunities to make, construct, contribute, display and join in.
The new Clore Learning Centre includes gallery-like spaces for the display of work, a welcome room full of resources and information and a small cinema. The Clore Studio, similar to an artist’s studio, has been designed to allow visitors to develop and explore art practice and the McAulay Seminar Room is for discussion events. The McAulay Schools and Family Room is a new space for school groups and families to relax and eat their lunches in the gallery.
Anna Cutler, Director of Learning, Tate said: “We have developed a more artist-led, workshop-orientated approach to learning at Tate over the past year which is more visual and engaging and encourages participation. The Clore Learning Centre provides a brilliant foundation from which we can build and develop our new learning programme. Far removed from the classroom feel of old, the Centre is filled with laboratory spaces in which visitors can come to experiment, ask questions and have discussions, and make their own work by way of response and exploration. I hope that visitors of all ages will come and enjoy them and that this in turn encourages them to develop a depth of understanding and a lifetime love of gallery-going.”
The re-opening of the Clore Learning Centre provides an opportunity to celebrate the start of a more integrated approach to learning at Tate. It also marks the first stage in the wider Tate Modern Project, developing Tate Modern to the south of the current building. The transformative effects of this project will be felt across both the current gallery and through the new building, where innovative learning spaces will play a central role.
These spaces have been generously supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, Mr Ronald and the Hon Mrs McAulay and the Eranda Foundation.
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