A National Audit Office Report concludes that visitors are discouraged from visiting the institution because of its “highbrow” image

A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book

Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland

A vast, nine section exhibition: What the critics said

Special viewings arranged for expected international collectors

The San Martino’s decorative arts and theatre collections are, at last, on show again, in new rooms

Unfortunately this excellent showcase of the master of landscape has been overlooked due to its lack of catalogue

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 216 pp, 74 b/w ills, 116 col. ills, £19.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372483

The panel finds Tate has legal title to a war-loot picture but agrees that the claimants should be compensated on ethical grounds

'I love the passion here'

Cities provide the context for many of the 20th century’s most important innovations, but are also environments in which literature, music, art and thought merge, split or collide with one another. Tate Modern’s first major exhibition since opening ambitiously comprises nine sections, 13 curators and 1,500 works spread over two floors. The display combines the scale and global scope of an international biennial with the historical perspective of art’s most varied century

Three year, £3.75 million project complete

All 19th-century European drawings and watercolours in the Tate’s collection will be loaned to the BM, with the possibility of transferring ownership entirely

Museum buys back title to the pictures and keeps part of the insurance money

If there is a museum anywhere in the world which can claim to be the first embodiment of this inclusive, antisegregationist approach, it is the V&A.

Relaunch in October 2001 intended to bring back the public

A criticism of the phrase

Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators

Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses

Whitechapel curator goes .com, more power into art and Juan Muñoz is the next artist for Tate Modern

Tate: Meeting Place or Museum?

13 paintings from the National Maritime Museum, a £100,000 chest from the British Museum, and a Burne-Jones panel from the V&A are some of the items stolen

Aristocrat Toshio Hara is admired by museum directors, such as Nick Serota of the Tate, for his contemporary art museum

We speak to galleries and artists that have responded to this Tate factor

Extensive damage to basement in Easter Sunday flood

Tate Modern continues to dominate the London scene, but gets spread around in more ways than it bargained for

Despite the opening of Tate Modern, which lured away many buyers, the fair was generally a success