Tate St Ives offers first glimpse of £20m refurbishment

After an 18-month closure, Tate St Ives is reopening this Friday, 31 March. It will have double the exhibition space and, this autumn, its first ever semi-permanent display dedicated to the Modern artists who flocked to the town in the mid-20th century. Inaugurated in 1993, the museum is located in the south-west corner of England, and most of its visitors are seaside holidaymakers.
Mark Osterfield, the director of Tate St Ives, says the 20m project will re-present the story about why St Ives i