What's on

Planet for our Future: How do we adapt to a transforming world?

Our new approach to exhibition programming, empowering art to address fundamental societal challenges through themed seasons, kicked off in Autumn 2023 with Planet for our Future. This asked one fundamental question that confronts us all: How do we adapt to a transforming world?

Why Do We Take Drugs?

Through a six-month season of interlinked exhibitions and programmes, the Sainsbury Centre explores the question Why Do We Take Drugs? From alcohol and caffeine to ayahuasca and heroin, this season uses art to take visitors on a journey of investigation, inviting audiences to explore the world of global drug cultures from illegal to familiar across one mind-blowing museum landscape.

14 September - 27 April 2025

Can the Seas Survive Us?

Three exhibitions will chart a course through the story of the oceans, and the dangerous future that they may be heading towards, featuring historical artworks, maps, atlases, archives, and contemporary art from across the globe.

15 March - 21 September 2025

Can We Stop Killing Each Other?

The autumn season will wrestle with one of the darkest and deadliest aspects of humanity. A series of exhibitions will explore the fundamental questions of why humans are led to kill and the culture that wrestles with this notion such as in art, film, TV and theatre.

20 September - 3 May 2026