So how long did you queue for?

And was it worth the wait?

Bristol Museum vs Banksy was certainly the most celebrated cultural event to take place in Bristol in 2009.

More than 300,000 people went to see the exhibition between June and August, bringing an estimated £15 million into the local economy.

I am very pleased that I took the time to queue, and to see what the artist had placed around the museum, but I came away quite underwhelmed with the majority of the exhibition.

His jokes are simple visual one-liners and the humour started to grate after a while. The smaller places dotted around also turned into a bit of a wild goose chase, which going to an exhibition shouldn’t be about, although it did encourage people to visit the more obscure areas of the museum and discover, for example, a Banksy dildo hidden among the stalactites and stalegmites.

But fair play to the elusive graffiti artist (as all newspapers are obliged to call him).

He somehow managed to keep the whole thing a secret, and once it opened the exhibition certainly put Bristol on the map. He has also allowed a statue of an angel with a bucket of pink paint on its head (the photograph on the left) and a modified model of Jerusalem to remain as permanent exhibits at the museum.