News is that the Tate Liverpool has now sold around 20,000 tickets for its hotly-anticipated Klimt exhibition which opens today.
It means the show is already a record-breaker, which must be a record in itself.
I hear they are having to bring the goods lift into use to transport the large numbers of visitors up and down to the fourth floor gallery.
They learned that from the Turner Prize in December when the regular lifts broke down because of the huge demand.
I popped in to the champagne reception/preview last night where a very relieved Christoph Grunenberg and his team were relaxing with a glass or two of Perrier Jouet after a last minute flurry to get everything ready.
When I attended the press view on Wednesday the carpet layers and furniture fitters were still at work and some notices still needed to go up on the exhibits.
But I like that feeling of being involved in an exhibition's preparation.
It wasn't much fun for all the camera crews though when someone decided to start up a vacuum cleaner as they were filming.
Last night it all looked spick and span, and members of the RLPO were playing Viennese music by the Beethoven Frieze.
Alongside the relieved Tate staff I spotted Grosvenor boss Rod Holmes who didn't have a bad day either with 200,000 people turning up to tread the red carpet at Liverpool One, plus Alastair Upton from the Bluecoat which won a Riba architecture prize on Wednesday night, Vasily Petrenko (who picked up a gong on behalf of the "big eight" at the tourism awards on the same evening), and Gemma and Deborah from the Everyman and Playhouse who are having a rip-roaring success with Tartuffe.
There was a real feel-good buzz about the place (you could hear the hubbub from up on the fourth floor) - let's hope we can continue it into the weekend with Macca's imminent return to the city.
