As seen from Millennium Bridge, here's the
Tate Modern. DH was calling it the Millennial Bridge was cracking me up as we walked across. This museum building is a former power station, and it's one of the best urban re-uses of an existing structure I've ever seen. And it's absolutely vast inside.
We randomly chose which wing and floor to start on, and the very first artworks we saw just happened to a small room with this great painted quilts! What a nice surprise that was to me.
They're all works by artist
Pacita Abad, and they are screen-painted, embellished and quilted works.
These are all so vibrant and beautifully done, what a great start to our visit to the museum.
Fun to see a Piet Mondrian, Composition C (number III) with Red Yellow and Blue. DH was more interested than his expression.
Andy Warhol also is very fun to see in person. They had an interesting curator video about cleaning this piece so it could be displayed.
There's a gigantic space between the two buildings, at least four storeys high called Turbine Hall, and they were installing a
new exhibit. 
It looked super interesting, so I was a bit bummed we didn't get to walk through it. Fun to see the workers assembling it.
There were whole rooms that were art pieces, this one had sculptures and an anime video too.
I don't think I've ever seen the LOVE statue. Apparently there are different color combinations of it out there.
A massive Matisse colored paper collage named The Snail.
The shadow on the wall below the piece,
3Y 3B by Rasheed Araeen, shows the 3-d-ness, wonderful stuff.
In the lower parts of the museum there are all sorts of interesting concrete structures from the former purpose of the power plant. There are several round rooms that have amazing sound design exhibits. I wish I'd taken a video to capture it, but I was too immersed in the experience (a good thing really).
So thrilled to have had a second chance to experience this awesome museum.
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