Visit to the house of Thomas Gainsborough, Sudbury, Suffolk
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Cost £41pp for Art Fund members/£49pp otherwise. This includes cost of coach fare, entry and a 40-minute guided tour.
Details about how to book your place are on the website. Friends and family are also invited.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was born in Sudbury. He lived here until around 1740 when, as a young teenager, he was sent to London to pursue a career as an artist. He returned to Sudbury in the spring of 1749 until 1752 when he painted his celebrated ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’.
In 1958 Gainsborough’s House Society was formed to purchase the house and establish it as a centre for Thomas Gainsborough. The museum opened to the public in 1961 and continues to share the life and work of Thomas Gainsborough today. In 2019, the Gainsborough’s House Society received an investment of £10m to upgrade and ‘revive the artist’s birthplace’. On 21 November 2022, the museum re-opened to the public after a transformational refurbishment. The museum is the international centre for Thomas Gainsborough and is now the largest gallery in Suffolk.
Visitors can view the family house, the new gallery spaces, examples of Gainsborough’s work, alongside specialist exhibitions and the famed crinkle-crankle walled garden with Mulberry Tree dating to the early 1600s. The space also has a cafe and gift shop for visitors.
Also check out other Arts events in Sudbury, Exhibitions in Sudbury.
