The gallery presents displays of work from the Tate collection alongside special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The special exhibition programme, presented on the Gallery's fourth floor, brings together works from national and international collections, both public and private.

Since the gallery opened in 1988, it has presented over 150 different exhibitions and collection displays of work by hundreds of different artists, some seen for the first time in the UK at Tate Liverpool.

Two decades on from the Tate's opening in Liverpool, the economy has continued to recover and has experienced growth rates higher than the national average. Inner-city development projects have brought both government support and funding to the city. Liverpool now has more museums and art galleries than any other city in the country.

Website: http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool

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Website: http://www.sfmoma.org/

Constructed in 1779 by Landgrave Friedrich II and said to have been the first public museum building on the European continent. Since 2008 Kunsthalle Fridericianum is under the artistic direction of Rein Wolfs and resumes highly ambitious and energetic contemporary art exhibitions. Their focus tends to be on solo shows of young, international artists dealing with humanity in all its facets, sometimes provoking hot debate.

Website: http://www.fridericianum-kassel.de

With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, LACMA is the largest art museum in the western US. It is a museum of international stature and is a vital part of Southern California. It shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities with nearly a million visitors annually.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art's collections are geographically comprehensive and cover virtually the entire history of art. Among the museum's special strengths are its holdings of Asian art; and Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists including Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and José Clemente Orozco; as well as Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world.

Website: http://www.lacma.org/

Housed in a landmark industrial building on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, BALTIC is the biggest gallery of its kind in the world. It presents a dynamic, diverse and international programme of contemporary visual art.

The gallery has no permanent collection, providing instead an ever-changing calendar of exhibitions and activities that give a unique and compelling insight into contemporary artistic practice. The comprehensive programme ranges from blockbuster exhibitions to innovative new work and projects created by artists working within the local community.

BALTIC aims to be a place where visitors can experience innovative and provocative new art, relax, have fun, learn and discover fresh ideas.

The gallery receives funding from The National Lottery through Arts Council England, Gateshead Council, Northern Rock Foundation and is supported by the European Regional Development Fund and One NorthEast.

Website: http://www.balticmill.com

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial centre was born with the aim of establishing an alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic development, and aspires to become a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation.

Website: http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org

The Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou was the brainchild of President Georges Pompidou who wanted to create an original cultural institution in the heart of Paris completely focused on modern and contemporary creation. Pompidou created a centre where the visual arts would rub shoulders with theatre, music, cinema, literature and the spoken word.

The centre is housed in the centre of Paris in a building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, whose architecture symbolises the spirit of the 20th century. The Centre Pompidou first opened its doors to the public in 1977.

It is situated in a unique location and houses one of the most important museums in the world, featuring the leading collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, a vast public reference library with facilities for over 2,000 readers, general documentation on 20th century art, a cinema and performance halls, a music research institute, educational activity areas, bookshops, a restaurant and a café.

The centre aims to spread knowledge about all creative works from the 20th century and those heralding the new millennium. Each year the Centre Pompidou holds thirty or so public exhibitions plus international events - cinema and documentary screenings, conferences and symposiums, concerts, dance and educational activities - many of which go on to other venues in both France and abroad.

Website: http://www.centrepompidou.fr

Essl Museum comprises the art collection of Agnes and Karlheinz Essl and reflects the collectors' personal vision of contemporary art. Austrian painting after 1945 represented the central core of the collection in the first decades.

As of the early 1990s, it began to adopt an increasingly international orientation. Art genres represented in the collection range from Informel to Vienna Actionism, from the realist tendencies of the 1970s to the "new painting" of the 1980s and the pluralism of styles and media that marks the present.

The collection now boasts seminal contemporary artists from Europe, the USA, Australia, Mexico and China. It is characterised by going for depth rather than width by acquiring complete groups of works and by its steady growth through continuous acquisition. With its current holdings of more than 6.000 works of art, it covers all contemporary art media from the second half of the 20th century to the beginnings of the 21st century.

Website: http://www.essl.museum

Frank Cohen is the founder of Glyn Webb Home Improvement Stores and one of the most famous art collectors in the world.

A great patron of Modern British art since the 1970s, Cohen specialised in Young British Artists (YBAs) in the late 1980s, American and German art of the 1980s and 1990s, contemporary Japanese art (especially the Superflat movement) and more recently contemporary Chinese and Indian art. ARTnews magazine's list of 'The World's Top 200 Collectors' lists him annually and he is often referred to as the Charles Saatchi of the North.

Cohen opened Initial Access in January 2007, a foundation in Wolverhampton that shows the younger artists from his collection. Today Cohen has become known as one of the most influential promoters of international contemporary art in the world.
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Website: http://www.initialaccess.co.uk

Essl Museum comprises the art collection of Agnes and Karlheinz Essl and reflects the collectors' personal vision of contemporary art. Austrian painting after 1945 represented the central core of the collection in the first decades.

As of the early 1990s, it began to adopt an increasingly international orientation. Art genres represented in the collection range from Informel to Vienna Actionism, from the realist tendencies of the 1970s to the "new painting" of the 1980s and the pluralism of styles and media that marks the present.

Image: Image: YASUMASA MORIMURA
A Requiem: Dream of Universe/ALBERT 2, 2007
Gelatin Silver Print
120 x 96 cm

© Yasumasa Morimura, courtesy Essl Museum

Website: http://www.essl.museum