School Visits to Tate Modern

Do I need to make a booking to bring a school group to Tate?

Yes. Timed tickets are required to enter our galleries for the free collections. To help manage numbers, we require all school groups to pre-book at least two weeks in advance and are limiting each class to 40 tickets (including teachers). Each day, there will be a block of 40 tickets available for an 11.00 visit and one block of 40 tickets available for a 13.00 visit.

How much does it cost?

Self-led visits to the permanent collection at Tate Modern are free.

WHAT HAPPENS IF I FORGET OUR TICKETS?

For the safety of our staff, please do try to remember to bring your tickets. They will be posted to your school in advance of your booking. If, for whatever reason, you do not have your tickets with you on the day of your visit, please advise students to wait at the top of the ramp and send your lead teacher down to the desks to have the tickets reprinted.

CAN I BOOK EXHIBITION TICKETS FOR MY CLASS?

We are looking forward to welcoming you and your students back to the gallery. Tate is following all Government guidelines to keep visitors and staff safe, meaning that capacities for visiting are significantly lower than usual. Capacities for paid exhibitions have been limited to very low numbers to ensure safety, and for this reason we are temporarily unable to offer school group tickets for exhibitions.

WHAT HAPPENS IF WE ARE LATE?

That’s fine! Please note that you cannot enter the galleries before your scheduled time slot of either 11 AM or 1 PM and do plan accordingly, as we do not want students and teachers to have to queue outdoors for extended periods of time, especially if there is inclement weather. If you are more than 15 minutes late, you may be instructed to wait until you can be safely accommodated in the galleries.

DO WE NEED TO REGISTER ON THE NHS TRACK AND TRACE APP? IF SO, DOES THIS NEED TO BE DONE BY EVERY INDIVIDUAL?

Yes, we will need to take a name and contact number at the point of booking for every person over the age of 16 (this includes all support staff).

WHAT ACTIVITIES DO YOU HAVE FOR STUDENTS?

Due to the impact of COVID-19, we are not currently providing paper-based resources in the gallery, but you are welcome to save resources from the website or from our ebulletins to your mobile devices and use them the way you would a paper resource. If you’re not currently signed up for our ebulletin and would like to be, please email us.

These ‘activities’ are developed by artists who have worked on the Schools and Teachers Programme. You can find them below under ‘Self-led student resources’. These resources emulate the workshops and include the perspective of contemporary artists in the gallery. They aim to encourage new ways of looking at and learning with art.

CAN SKETCH AND DRAW IN THE GALLERIES?

You are welcome to bring your own sketchbooks and drawing materials to Tate Modern and are allowed to sketch in galleries as long as they are not crowded and you remain in small groups. If a gallery becomes too crowded, you may be asked to continue to the next set of rooms.

Permitted materials - dry materials such as pencils, graphite sticks, fine-tipped pens, wax crayons, conté and charcoal pencils (must be wood or plastic encased), oil pastels encased in paper. Prohibited materials - loose dry materials including charcoal and pastels, soft oil pastels and oil paint sticks, all paints and other wet materials, permanent markers and tape.

MY STUDENTS ARE STUDYING [INSERT TOPIC], HOW DO I FIND OUT IF IT IS ON DISPLAY?

Check Tate’s website, by searching for the artwork, artist or medium in Search, and then cross-check to see if those works are on the gallery tour route. Unfortunately, we cannot give access to works that are not on the pre-approved gallery routes.

IS THERE SOMEWHERE WE CAN PARK?

Tate Modern has limited accessible onsite parking. This should be booked in advance and a registration number provided at least 24hrs before the visit. Regardless of where you are parked, you will need to enter the gallery through the South Entrance.

I WANT TO ARRANGE A TALK OR TOUR FOR MY STUDENTS - HOW DO I DO THIS?

Unfortunately School Group tours, Tate to Tate tours, Exhibition private lectures, Exhibition packages and Exhibition tours are temporarily suspended. If you are booking for fewer than 5 people, you can book through Tate Private Tours.

WHERE ARE THE BATHROOMS AND CHANGING FACILITIES?

At Tate Modern there are bathrooms on each floor and a changing place on Level 0 in the boiler house building. Please check your route map for more details.

IS THERE A MAP?

Yes. A map of the route is available to download here: Download the Route Map PDF [80.1k kb]