Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

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A man takes a picture of an art piece inside the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Southwest, England, UK

This classic Edwardian museum delivers some surprises. Look out for the Paint-Pot Angel by street artist Banksy in the entrance hall. A funerary statue with an upturned pot of pink paint on her head, she's designed to challenge our expectations of museum exhibits and the value of art. Just above sits the Bristol Boxkite, a prototype propeller-powered biplane, which dangles from the ceiling.

Other displays encompass everything from dinosaurs and Asian antiques to Assyrian reliefs. The art sections are particularly strong: especially paintings by Pissarro, Lucas Cranach, Giovanni Bellini, Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable.

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