Culture House Sunderland

Culture House Sunderland - The National Centre for Creative Smart Cities and home to the Sunderland City Library.

Lead Curator: Our Home in Space (Opening Exhibition)

Presented by: Culture House Sunderland - The National Centre for Creative Smart Cities (CHS: NCCSC) in partnership with Barbican Immersive.

Funded by: The North East Combined Authority, the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and Sunderland City Council.

Image Credits: Elliot Nichol Photography

culturehousesunderland.co.uk (Opened 12th September 2026, +80K visitors in 4 weeks).

Housing the city library, 36 interconnected LED screens in the atrium, an immersive 99sqm 360 room, and gallery spaces amongst much more - the building operates as an iconic hub of activity bringing together education, art, technology and culture.

Curation.

Artistic Direction and Programme Delivery

Curation and Engagement

Interpretive Narratives

Production

Project Management

Financial Management

Consultancy

Connecting long-term cross-sector collaborators

Project Initiation and Scoping

Cultural Strategy and Digital Innovation

Feasibility and Technical Risk Management

OUR HOME IN SPACE is an important concept in space exploration that goes beyond travelling into the unknown, it highlights Earth as a unique and delicate home within the huge universe.

More than an exhibition OUR HOME IN SPACE is an invitation to reimagine our place in the cosmos. Through arts, science, and storytelling, this experience encourages visitors to look outward to the stars and inward to the self, to see Earth not as a backdrop to our lives, but as a living, breathing part of a vast and interconnected system. It is a space for wonder, learning, and reflection - a place where imagination and information collide.

Times Images of the Week from Around the World (12th September 2026). Image credit: Owen Humphreys