Gallery Tours & Groups

Independent Visits

Daily Guided Tours

Join one of our free Daily Guided Tours and take a closer look at Tate's collection. Tours last approximately 45 minutes, each focusing on highlights from different areas of our collection displays as chosen by a Tate Guide.

Group visits Photo © Richard Eaton

Monday to Sunday: 11.00 Poetry and Dream Highlights, Meet on Level 3 12.00 Material Gestures Highlights, Meet on Level 3 14.00 States of Flux Highlights, Meet on Level 5 15.00 Idea and Object Highlights, Meet on Level 5

Tate Multimedia Guides

Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Dan Flavin and Louise Bourgeois - See the artists at work, listen to the music that inspired them and hear what they have to say about their own work.

The Collection Tour includes responses by leading cultural critics, musicians, and writers. Group booking information for multimedia guides is available via Tate Ticketing Services (020 7887 8888).

For young people, we have a family tour available on Level 3 with interactive activities, make a creature weirder than a Lobster Telephone, Dribble paint with Jackson Pollock or improve Matisse's snail.

All tours are available in English. A Highlights Tour is also available in French, German, Italian and Spanish from early September.

Price £2 (£1 Concessions)
Available from the Level 2 information desk and Level 3.

Group visits

Group visits
Photo © Richard Eaton

.All groups must book their visit in advance. Please state when booking if you wish to lecture. Please call Membership and Ticketing services on 020 7887 8888, or email education.bookings@tate.org.uk.

Exhibition Guided Tours

Group visits
Photo © Richard Eaton

We offer highlights tours of our major exhibitions at set dates and times for £6.50 per person plus the exhibition ticket. Tours are given by Tate guides and last for one hour. Your guide will wear a microphone and you will wear a special receiver so that the tour is exclusive to those who have purchased tour tickets. Maximum of 15 people per tour. Please see exhibition information for tour times, dates and ticket availability.

For group packages in exhibitions please see our exhibition lecture package section.

Group Guiding System

If you are lecturing to your own group, you may like to consider hiring our group-guiding equipment for your visit, at a cost of £1.50 per person.

The Antenna Audio group guiding system provides a perfect solution for your in gallery lecture. The guide has a transmitter and microphone, and each group member has a receiver and earpiece, for high quality sound without disturbing others.

To check availability or to book call Tate Tours on 020 7887 4946.

See also Gallery Tours & Groups at: Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives
and the Tate-wide Events & Education directory.

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