Smartify Audio Tours
Our new audio tours highlight some of the most unique objects from our global collection. We recognise art as alive and have created two immersive audio experiences to help bring it to life for you.
The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through The Incite Project
This dynamic exhibition re-evaluates the most iconic images of the past 100 years, exploring the impact and influence photography has had on shaping – and in some cases distorting – the narrative of major global events.
18 May - 20 October 2024
Power Plants: Intoxicants, Stimulants and Narcotics
For millennia people have used the psychoactive properties of plants as an integral part of social, ceremonial and religious life. The show will reference global artefacts that are connected with the traditional consumption of tobacco and snuff, betel nut, kava, tea and palm wine, alongside an exploration of the sacred, hallucinogenic cactus, peyote.
14 September - 2 February 2025
Ayahuasca & Art of the Amazon
This exhibition considers the impact of the mind-altering, psychotropic vine – ayahuasca – within Western Amazonian social life. It explores how the ritual consumption of ayahuasca is linked to their artistic production.
14 September - 2 February 2025
Lindsey Mendick: Hot Mess
Lindsey Mendick subverts the tradition of ceramics with her darkly comic, confessional works. Her newly commissioned sculptures for the Sainsbury Centre will be strikingly personal, tackling social taboos and exposing the artist’s secret fears.
23 November - 27 April 2025
Heroin Falls
Heroin Falls highlights the realities of heroin addiction through the juxtaposition of two different worlds through the eyes of two incredible photographers. The exhibition aims to show connections which will lead viewers to acknowledge substance misuse is a global challenge that transcends race, location and class.
23 November - 27 April 2025
Autumn Brochure 2024
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