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Which miracle did St Patrick perform? The great British art quiz

The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery set today’s quiz, which enables you to explore the art collection of British museums closed due to Covid-19 – while answering some fiendish questions along the way

This quiz 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. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today, our questions are set by the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent. The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery has one of the largest and most diverse regional collections outside of London, holding almost one million objects across its six outstanding collections, comprising of fine and decorative art, ceramics, local history, natural sciences and archaeology. Its fine art collection, established in the 1920s, is distinguished by early- mid-20th-century art.

You can see art from the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery on Art UK here, and find out more about the gallery on its website here.

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