Rooms & spaces · 30
Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery
The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery hosts changing temporary exhibitions on the principal ground level.
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The exhibition title at Room 30 is your starting point. The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery hosts temporary shows, so the works and the story change with each programme.
The gallery is on the principal ground level. Check the exhibition’s admission arrangements before planning your visit around it, then follow its own sequence once inside. A visit here can take a different shape from a selection of permanent galleries. The show’s subject and scale will help you decide how much time to give it.
Photo gallery 1
Image credits
- SpeakingArch · Fowling in the marshes, fragment of wall painting from the Tomb of Nebamun, 1350 BCE, 18th Dynasty. Thebes, Upper Egypt, British Museum, London.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Geni · Great gold buckle sutton hoo.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jack1956 · Bm-ginger.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · Amarna letter. Letter from Yapahu (ruler of Gezer) to the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III or son Akhenaten.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) · Minoan Bull-leaper.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Pymouss · British Museum - Hamadab Stela 01.jpg · CC BY 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jononmac46 · Silvered-bronze horse trappings from Xanten (BM).JPG · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Geni · Lindow Man 2023.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Johnbod · Bone pendant decorated with an engraved drawing of a wolverineDSCF6967.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Dave from Nottingham, England · Ochre Horse.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jononmac46 · Folkton Drums.JPG · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jononmac46 · Orense Torcs.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Matthew Ford · 5 Torcs from the Ipswich Hoard.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England · Winchester Hoard.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Gryffindor · Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Johnbod · Brit Mus 13sept10 brooches etc 062.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- James Miles · Angled View of the Hoa Hakananai'a Statue.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Diliff · British Museum Great Court, London, UK - Diliff.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Adrian Boliston · Queen Elizabeth II Great Court stairs 2025-03-19.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jononmac46 · Shiva Nataraja in BM.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Einsamer Schütze · Lindow Man 01.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Sanjay ach · Back side of Hoa Hakananai'a stone moai.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Michel wal · Roman writing tablet 02.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Matt Brown · British Museum entrance 2024-10-05.jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Dale Cruse from San Francisco, CA, USA · British Museum (53518798647).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Johnbod · Waddesdon Bequest DSCF0642 01.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Paul Hudson from United Kingdom · British Museum - Room 6 (16675656832).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · Minoan Bull-leaper 1.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · Bassae Frieze on display at the British Museum.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- APK · Room 18, British Museum - 1.jpg · CC BY 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- James Miles · Hoa Hakananai'a.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · At the British Museum 2024 236.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Paul Hudson · British Museum - Room 33 (19022504543).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Redtigerxyz · BrMus Amravati.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Paul Hudson from United Kingdom · British Museum - Room 40 Lewis Chess Pieces (20223865099).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Mike Peel · At the British Museum 2024 279.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · At the British Museum 2024 207.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · Lindow Man.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Johnbod · Folkton DrumsDSCF9510.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Mike Peel · British Museum Flood Tablet 1.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Geni · Standard of ur peace 2013.JPG · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- SpeakingArch · Amarna letter from Yapahu, King of Gezer to the Egyptian King, 14th century BCE, Tell el Amarna.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Fæ · Gebelein predynastic mummy British Museum EA 32751.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Pymouss · British Museum - Hamadab Stela 02.jpg · CC BY 3.0 · WebP / AVIF
- APK · Room 68, British Museum.jpg · CC BY 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- Jastrow · Portland Vase BM Gem4036 n1.jpg · CC BY 2.5 · WebP / AVIF
- APK · Painted terracotta sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, British Museum.jpg · CC BY 4.0 · WebP / AVIF
- BabelStone · The David Vases, 1351.jpg · CC BY-SA 3.0 · WebP / AVIF