Sadly this post has nothing to do with Dennis Norden holding a clipboard and saying, 'if you're one of those people...'
No. This one is all about the organised (and not so organised) chaos that happens in the last few weeks before a museum opens its doors. We've been lucky enough to be involved in the new Great North Museum, which opened on Saturday - and even luckier to go behind the scenes in the last few weeks of installation.

(That's a dinosaur in the Great North Museum. Nothing to do with us, but great!)
There's a scene in the movie Shakespeare in Love when the theatre manager, beset by financial woes, unreliable writers and the Master of the Revels threatening to shut him down, simply shrugs his shoulders and says, 'It'll all work out alright in the end. I don't know how, but it always does.' Launching a new museum or gallery is very like getting ready to launch a stage show - everything seems crazy until the last moment, when it suddenly all falls into place.
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