Tate St.Ives

We went to the Tate St.Ives on Tuesday. We found out all sorts of information like the listed below:
1) The Tate St.Ives are the only national museum in a rural context in the UK

2)Their definition of the Wider community they work with is the whole of Cornwall.

3)Most visitors go to Tate St.Ives in the spring and summer.

4) The department of for culture funds the Tate.

5) There are 4 Tates.

The storage site for Tate St.Ives are held in North London.

7) The Barbara hetworth museum was set up on 1979

8) The current Tate building was built in 1993

9) Patrick Heron made the stained glass window which is permanently exhibited in the Tate

10) There are 3 exhibitions held at the Tate every year

11) The Tate is shut 2 weeks between each exhibition to put all the new exhibition objects up. This is called the 'going dark' period.

12) the aim of Tate St.Ives is to bring international art to Cornwall.

13) The building was designed like it is to reflect on the town of st.Ives.

14) They create a new What's On Guide every exhibition they held.

15) They plan two years in advance for their exhibitions they hold.

16) There are 4 activities going on at the same time on Super Sundays.
I found it quite interesting. I think the woman did talk to long and I felt she didn't tell us the information we wanted to know. For example she didn't say much about what work is being exhibited or cultures of the work or the actual Tate Gallery itself.