Our Universal Ticket gives you access to the full Living Art experience, including our Big Question seasonal exhibitions, The Living Area (the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection), our 350-acre Sculpture Park, and free daily tours. Entry tickets can be free, or you can choose to support the Sainsbury Centre through your contribution, which helps us to care for our collections, present world-class exhibitions, acquire new artworks, and keep art accessible for all.
Welcome to the Sainsbury Museum and Art Centre, where you’ll discover a unique perspective on how art can foster relationships and inspire new ways of thinking — not just about art, but about life.
We believe that every artwork has a life of its own, that they are literally alive and animate. This means we need to think about artworks more as individuals than objects, with their own life histories, insights and secrets.
In the museum, are some of the world’s greatest artworks, lives that span thousands of years of human imagination, creativity and lived experience. They are displayed in conversation with each other, and with you. We encourage you to move among them and meet them as you would other people.
In 1973, Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury donated their extraordinary art collection to the University of East Anglia. The Sainsburys were trailblazing in their desire to display artworks from across the globe equally and collectively. They worked with architect Lord Norman Foster to create this innovative yet intimate space, in which visitors choose their own pathway to the artworks they connect with. We invite you to explore our Living Area before setting off to discover our galleries across three floors, as well as the surrounding 350-acre Sculpture Park.
The Sainsbury Museum and Art Centre is a unique experience, where art has the power to help us discover and understand our world. We have created a series of digital, text-based and experiential approaches for you to build personal relationships with our artworks and to explore life’s biggest questions in our seasonal exhibitions.
The Living Area. Photo by Lee Mawdsley
