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Giant spiders, suns and sunflower seeds: seven of Tate Modern's most groundbreaking moments

Louise Bourgeois, Maman, Tate Modern, 2000 (c) Tate Photography - (Tate Photography)

It’s been 25 years since the Tate Modern opened in London, the Bankside Power Station re-imaged as one of the largest contemporary art museums in the world.

Tate Modern, and its cavernous Turbine Hall, has played host to art – a lot of it interactive – on a grand scale. When it opened in 2000, the curators commissioned and installed Maman, a 33-foot-high bronze and stainless steel spider with marble eggs, created by the artist Louise Bourgeois.

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