NottmPostEG published 80,000 expected at Da Vinci exhibition at Nottingham Castle

Nottingham Castle is expecting big numbers for its latest exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection. Mark Patterson gives his verdictExpect to queue. Expect to wait in an antechamber. Expect to wait your turn among the 80,000 people - for that is Nottingham's Castle's estimate of the number of folks who'll be thronging to see ten drawings by Leonardo da Vinci this summer and autumn. Although talked up perhaps over-dramatically as a 'once in a lifetime' event, this new