Banksy versus Bristol Museum

Finally got to see the show last week but because I was entertaining a friend on a trip to Bristol, and coupled with the fact that it was one of the hottest days in recent memory, our trip was a brief one. This was the only photo I took - I'm planning to return in the near future and get there for opening at 10am.

Over a month into the exhibition large queues continue to form at weekends and even during midweek we waited ten minutes or so to get in, only to queue again once inside.

Shortly after it opened M, whose cousin works at the museum, was lucky to be shown around before opening time and had the whole place to herself! Outrageous...

I enjoyed what I saw of the show and it's great to see so many people attending an exhibition at a museum (over 100,000 in early July). I read somewhere that the Tories are thinking of reintroducing museum admission charges if they get in at the next election - while I disagree with that policy the council would have boosted their coffers nicely from this exhibition.

For anybody outside Bristol still thinking of taking a look there's an excellent guide here.