We finally got round to going, the exhibits are breathtaking and it's a privilege to see them all in one place. The carving is exquisite and the addition of a few modern pieces merely reinforces Picasso's much quoted line that modern artists "have invented nothing". To see the Robin Hood's Cave horse carving up close is wonderful.
Unfortunately, the arrangement of the exhibition is pretty rubbish, in my opinion the worst organised exhibition we've been to. There are empty areas around the periphery, which could have been utilised much better to space out and emphasise what are generally small exhibits. Instead, they were crammed into small cases taking up less than half of the available space, mostly in the middle of the rooms. Everyone was crammed up against these cases, shuffling along into the next tiny gap. It was also headache-inducingly dimly lit, and the info panels weren't labelled or numbered, making it sometimes a little difficult to work out which piece it related to. A real shame, that something that could have been completely awe-inspiringly phenomenal was a bit of a let-down. Poor show, BM.
