Art Museum

Sainsbury Centre

Sainsbury Centre
Sainsbury Centre

Sainsbury Centre is an art museum in Norwich, United Kingdom.

About Sainsbury Centre

The Sainsbury Centre is an art museum located on the campus of the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. The building, which contains a collection of world art, was one of the first major public buildings to be designed by the architects Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman, completed in 1978. The building became Grade II* listed in December 2012.

As part of its relaunch in 2023 under new executive director Jago Cooper, the Sainsbury Centre became the first museum in the world to formally recognise art as alive. The centre's ethos 'Living Art Sharing Stories' aims to give agency to the objects in the collection, as well as enable people to build relationships with the living works of art.

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Founded
1978

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Artworks shown from Sainsbury Centre are in the public domain; images via the open-access programs of their source collections. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.