The Bankside gallery has been turned into a large playground with visitors able to travel down five large slides which spiral through the huge space connecting the galleries with Turbine Hall. The biggest slide is 55.5 metres long and has a drop of 27 metres.
The helter skelter, entitled Test Site, is the brainchild of German installation artist Carsten Höller who sees slides as an essential mode of human transport.
He wants to see slides connecting MPs with their offices and the House of Commons chamber and between shopping centres and Tube stations.
Visitors will be able to sit in canvas sacks and slide from the fifth floor to the ground, accelerating to 30mph. Three chutes depart from each of the main levels.
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