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The Tate Liverpool is an Art Gallery and Museum in Liverpool , Merseyside , England , and a branch of the Tate Gallery , along with the Tate St Ives , Cornwall, the Tate Britain , London, and the Tate Modern , London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corporation .The Tate Liverpool is the National Collection of Modern Art in the north of England, and for a time was the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in the UK outside of London.

The gallery is housed in a converted warehouse within the Albert Dock on Liverpool's waterfront. The original conversion was done by James Stirling but this proved unpopular with staff and visitors and the building was given a major refurbishment in 1998.


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  • http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/