Published Thursday 6 August 2020 at 9:53
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery is now featured in the Guardian’s online Great British Art Quiz.
The daily quiz is set by museums, galleries and heritage sites around the UK closed due to coronavirus. It is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists.
Today’s quiz will explore the collections of Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery that have had to stay closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
The museum has a fascinating collection of paintings, Japanese prints, Christian icons, medieval manuscripts, natural history specimens, Egyptian artefacts, coins and the local and social history of Blackburn.
You can see art from Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery on Art UK here.