Tate St Ives is a British museum that is part of the larger Tate museum complex.
It is located in the city of the same name, in Cornwall and was built by recovering an old central lighting gas factory. The building, designed by Evans and Shaleff, is spread over three floors. The Tate St Ives was opened to the public in 1993 and given the success it has achieved over the years and the number of tourists it attracts, an expansion of the spaces is being planned. The St Ives office houses in its permanent collection masterpieces by masters belonging to the homonymous school of St Ives born around the 1930s thanks to the meeting between Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood. This artistic school concentrated in particular in the fields of the abstract avant-garde, making the English town their personal outpost. Among the major exponents of the school are Peter Lanyon, John Wells, Roger Hilton, Bryan Wynter, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. The Tate of St Ives is also proposed as a reference point for new generation artists, especially if they originate from Cornwall.
Porthmeor Beach, St ives, United Kingdom
Opening hours
| opens - closes | last entry | |
| monday | 10:00 - 17:20 | |
| tuesday | 10:00 - 17:20 | |
| wednesday | 10:00 - 17:20 | |
| thursday | 10:00 - 17:20 | |
| friday | 10:00 - 17:20 | |
| saturday | 10:00 - 17:20 | |
| sunday | 10:00 - 17:20 |
