Tate St Ives

Tate St. Ives is an art gallery in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting paintings by means of modern British artists with links to the St Ives region. The Tate also took over management of some other museum within the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980. The Tate St Ives turned into constructed between 1988 and 1993 at the website of an antique gasworks, it now gets round 210,000 visitors every 12 months. In 2015, it acquired funding for a ramification, doubling the scale of the gallery, and closed in October 2015 for refurbishment. The gallery re-opened in October 2017. In 1980, Tate group began to control the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, committed to a St Ives artist intently connected with Henry Moore.

The group determined to open a museum in the city, to show off nearby artists, especially those already held in their collection. In 1988, the group purchased a former gasoline works and commissioned architects Eldred Evans and David Shalev, to layout a building for the gallery in a comparable style to the gas works. The constructing included a rotunda at the centre of the gallery, looking over Porthmeor Beach and became finished in 1993. The gallery opened in June 1993, the second one of the Tate's local galleries after Tate Liverpool, receiving extra than a hundred and twenty,000 site visitors earlier than the quit of the 12 months.