Catalogue description Tate Liverpool Website

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This series contains more than one link to the 'snapshots' of this website. For some websites, the URL may change periodically. Despite this change to the URL these websites are part of the same record series as they represent the department or organisation’s presence on the web at the time. Occasionally, more than one domain URL to the same website may run in parallel creating an overlap.

Tate Liverpool was opened in May 1988 in Albert Dock, Liverpool. The project gained momentum in 1980 when the new Tate Director Alan Bowness met with his Trustees to discuss the idea of creating a major contemporary art gallery in the North of England, a 'Tate in the North', as the project became known. In the autumn of that year he visited the five largest cities in the North of England: Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Newcastle and Liverpool, to look at potential sites and talk with local museum workers, politicians, and academics about the project.

Liverpool emerged as the preferred location and with the aid of the Merseyside Development Corporation a suitable site was found: a disused warehouose in Albert Dock. Work did not commence until 1985 and the gallery was finally opened three years later.