
The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour: Reflections on Peace
The Sainsbury Centre has been selected as a partner for The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2025–27. The work selected for the first year is Monet’s The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil (1872).

A World of Water
What would the world be like without water? This exhibition aims to unlock a sense of urgency, recognising that water, and possible geopolitical conflicts caused by it, will be as significant in this century as oil was in the 20th.
15 March - 3 August 2025

Darwin in Paradise Camp: Yuki Kihara
The Sainsbury Centre is proud to host the UK premiere of 'Paradise Camp', a celebrated work by Yuki Kihara, an interdisciplinary artist of Sāmoan and Japanese descent.
15 March - 3 August 2025

Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters
What role must museums play in the climate crisis? This urgent public gathering marks the opening event of Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters — a two-part programme hosted at the Sainsbury Centre, which reawakens the radical ethos upon which the Centre was founded.
4 June 2025

Sea Inside
Sea Inside turns our oceanic gaze towards the sea’s more intimate spaces – whether physical, psychological or imaginary – and dives into shared watery origins, Indigenous ways of life and the items we remove from the sea to display on land.
7 June - 26 October 2025
Spring Brochure 2025
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