RIBA picks ZMMA’s Thomas Gainsborough museum as its East Building of the Year

Gainsborough House Museum

Source: Jack Hobhouse

Extension of museum campus in Suffolk praised for coupling contemporary needs and heritage preservation

RIBA has named ZMMA’s extension to the Gainsborough House Museum in Suffolk as its building of the year in the East region for 2024.

The London-based architect and exhibition designer’s three-storey building in Sudbury provides a new entrance and gallery space to display the larger works of 18th century painter Thomas Gainsborough.

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