In pictures: Tate Modern's 5th birthday

The Tate Modern gallery on London's South Bank is celebrating its fifth birthday. More than four million people have visited the gallery every year, to see exhibits such as Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project in The Turbine Hall.

The Turbine Hall in the entrance to the Tate Modern features large scale exhibits. Louise Bourgeois was one of the first to fill the space with her giant staircase sculpture I Do I Undo/Tall Steel Spider.

Henri Matisse's Standing Nude, painted in 1907, was installed in the gallery as part of the Matisse/Picasso exhibition. It is now on display at Tate Liverpool.

Matisse's Draped Nude, the second in a series of four, also attracted crowds of art lovers to the gallery.

An exhibition dedicated to Edward Hopper proved one of the most popular in the Tate Modern's history. Nearly 450,000 tickets were sold for the show in 2004, second in popularity only to the Matisse/Picasso show.

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain, essentially a urinal signed by the artist in 1917, was recently voted the most influential piece of art work of all time by a panel of 500 experts.

A whole room was given over to Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds, with visitors able to touch the helium filled balloons.

A retrospective of Joseph Beuys saw his quirky piece The Pack loaned to the gallery. It was inspired by the German artist's rescue from a plane crash by nomadic Tartars.

The next big exhibition will a retrospective of the work of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, starting on 9 June. Among the exhibits will be this self-portrait with monkeys.

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