Banksy's piranhas artwork will go on permanent public display next year at London Museum, when it opens its new premises in Smithfield next year. Featuring the fierce fish making an aquarium out of a police sentry box,

In August 2024 the biting satirist claimed responsibility for turning a 1990s police sentry box on Ludgate Hill into a vicious-looking aquarium, using translucent spray paint. It was part of a spate of critter-themed artworks that Banksy delighted London with, others including a gorilla at London Zoo and a pelican outside a Walthamstow chip shop.

Now, Banksy’s ‘piranhas’ artwork will be exhibited at the flagship City museum, which will open next year at its new location at Smithfield’s Market. It comes after members of the City of London Corporation ’s Culture, Heritage, and Libraries Committee voted in favour of gifting the artwork to the museum.

London Museum has announced that it has acquired Banksy's Piranhas artwork which appeared in a police sentry box in the city last summer.