Banksy at the British Museum


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In 2005, Banksy installed this ‘cave painting’ in one of our galleries without permission, and without anyone noticing. He gave it a fake identification number and label, and it remained on the wall for three days before the Museum was alerted to the prank via Banksy’s website! 🤦‍

We’ve invited Banksy back to the Museum to ‘officially’ hang the hoax piece in our #IObject exhibition highlighting the history of dissent and protest around the world. Co-curator Ian Hislop will be on BBC Radio 4 at 9.00 this morning talking about this object – listen here: http://ow.ly/xvRt30lB8sK

Exhibition opens 6 September – book tickets now: http://ow.ly/8g7o30lB8wH

Banksy courtesy of Pest Control Office