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Performances and a light show are put on to celebrate the official opening, billed as ‘the party of the year’. Guests include Yoko Ono, Tony Blair, Tracey Emin, David Attenborough, Alexander McQueen and Kylie Minogue.

The Century City exhibition, which opens in February, explores the relationship between cultural creativity and the metropolis through the lens of nine international cities.

The second Turbine Hall commission, Juan Muñoz’s Double Bind, is viewed by over two million people.

Bruce Nauman's Turbine Hall commission, Raw Materials, opens in October.

The first major exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s painting in over 20 years (and the first ever in the UK) opens in June.

Rachel Whiteread’s Turbine Hall commission, Embankment, opens in October to great acclaim. As one visitor put it: ‘Everybody loves a box and Rachel’s takes the biscuit.’

Miroslaw Balka's Turbine Hall Commission, How it is, opens in October.

Tacita Dean's Turbine Hall commission, FILM, opens in October. It marks the first in the commissioned series to be devoted to moving image.

This year sees exhibitions of work by Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ellen Gallagher, Meschac Gaba, Ibrahim El-Salahi and Mira Schendel.

Gaba’s 12-room exhibition – the largest work ever bought by Tate – is presented as a museum-within-a-museum, combining the aesthetics of the art gallery with that of a West African marketplace. It will return to ������ as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations.

Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs becomes the most popular exhibition ever held at ������ and the first to receive over half a million visitors – almost 4,000 each day.

For one weekend in May, ������ becomes the Musée de la dance (Museum of Dance) with performances led by choreographer Boris Charmatz, including one that transforms the Turbine Hall into a nightclub.

The World Goes Pop, an exhibition retelling the story of pop art from a global perspective, opens later in the year. Abraham Cruzvillegas' Empty Lot opens in October, as this year's Turbine Hall Commission.

On 16 June, 3,000 school children from across the UK become the first members of the public to see the Switch House (now known as the Blavatnik Building), an extension which increases the display space by 60 per cent. Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, the new building opens to the general public the following day.

Philippe Pareno's Anywhen opens as the Turbine Hall commission in October.

In October, Tania Bruguera's Turbine Hall commission entitled 10,148,451 opens in response to the global migration crisis.

In March, Anne Imhof’s Sex takes over all of the spaces in the Tanks with an architectural installation, choreography and music.

Later, Olafur Eliasson’s exhibition In Real Life raises important environmental issues. As a response to the artists group 'Culture Declares' led by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Tate declares a Climate Emergency on 17 July.

Kara Walker's Turbine Hall commission, Fons Americanus, opens in October.

Anicka Yi's Turbine Hall Commission, In Love with the World, populates the Turbine Hall with machines in a vision of a new ecosystem.

This year's Turbine Hall Commission is Cecilia Vicuña's Brain Forest Quipu, which features sculptures made from organic materials.

Gathering Ground, a display featuring international contemporary artworks that are united by a deep connection to land and community, opens in January, and ������ celebrates its 25th birthday.

Since ������ opened in May 2000, 115 million people have visited the art museum.