It is a generous exhibition offered in the Black Diamond, as the room is called at the Royal Library.
The feeling is that Nick Cave's entire workroom has been moved here.
You can pick up and look in the books, you can sit at your desk and flip through Nick's notebooks, test his many stamps.
Did not want any exhibition
At a press conference today, Cave said that he was initially reluctant to join the project.
- I'm not nostalgic and not interested in my past.
My wife is a pathological collector and she had kept everything from the last 20 years.
So we started thinking about arranging an exhibition.
So I took a step back and then they put it together into a beautiful whole.
But there you can easily cover him with lies.
For already in his will from 1987, which hangs in the exhibition, he wrote: when I die, a small museum will be founded where my life will be honored!
Grief echoes in the halls
The new film gives a sneak peek into his creation;
from childhood in Wangaratta, Australia, to London, Berlin, Brazil, the world, and now Brighton, where he lives, and a position as one of the really big elephants in our pop culture zoo.
The grief echoes in the halls, the punk too, and the humor;
for example, Nina Simone's well-chewed chewing gum is in a stand.
And Mr Cave's self-made dictionary, as well as lots of collages, art-adorned notebooks, and lots of books.
Similar to group therapy
In one room are ten TV monitors in a row, one for each member of Cave's band The Bad Seeds.
They talk about all the years together, the break-ups, the mixed feelings for the bandleader, and it's done nicely, where the feeling is that they sit and listen to each other, like a quiet group therapy session.
And then there are a number of reconstructed rooms;
bedrooms from Berlin in the drug-filled 80s, where we can climb in and feel the crisp duvet covers;
different study rooms, and another reconstructed bedroom, with a reconstructed rock star refrigerator.
Contents: half a lemon.