Opened to coincide with the new millennium, this Goliath of a gallery boasts a collection of over 70,000 works of modern art, featuring paintings and sculptures by some of the most significant artists of the 20^th and 21^stcenturies, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Mark Rothko and Francis Bacon among them. Lesser known artists and less mainstream media also abound, with pieces composed of bottle tops or, most famously, a porcelain urinal, in the guise of Marcel Duchamp’s notorious Fountain.

The focal point of the building is the awesome Turbine Hall, which is often filled by a specially commissioned work. Other exhibitions spaces, including the galleries of the towering Blavatnik Building, feature collections on a single theme or hugely popular temporary shows.