Calling all art lovers: you have eight months left to visit the Tate Liverpool before it closes its doors for two whole years to undergo a major £29.7 million refurbishment.
The gallery on the Royal Albert Dock will close its doors from October 16 and reopen to visitors in 2025. In the meantime, it has extended its ‘JMW Turner With Lamin Fofana: Dark Waters’ exhibition until September 24.
It will also host exhibitions for the twelfth edition of Liverpool Biennial from June to September, and will continue to host events and one-off community projects using other spaces within the city during the temporary closure.
Director Helen Legg said that the refurbishment will ‘reimagine the gallery for the twenty-first century and strengthen the connection between art and people’.
She said: ‘Announcing this temporary closure gives everyone who loves Tate Liverpool a chance to return to the gallery before we begin the transformation process. It is also important to us that our audiences know they will still be able to engage with Tate Liverpool during the closure period through the high-quality work we deliver within the city’s communities.’
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