Bayeux Tapestry arrives safely at British Museum after leaving France for the first time in 900 years
The 68-metre artefact is traveling under police protection, with 100,000 tickets sold for its British Museum exhibition.
- The priceless 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry arrived at the British Museum under tight security in the dead of night following an 11-hour, 350-mile clandestine journey from France.
- Escorted by police, the 70-meter-long medieval artwork was transported via a vehicle shuttle train through the Channel Tunnel inside a high-tech, climate-controlled container equipped with vibration absorbers to protect its fragile wool-on-linen stitching.
- The highly anticipated arrival marks the first time the historic embroidery—which depicts the 1066 Norman Conquest and the Battle of Hastings—has been on English soil since its creation nearly a millennium ago.
- The high-stakes loan was negotiated as part of a cultural partnership while its permanent home, the Bayeux Museum in Normandy, closes for extensive renovations.
- Museum conservators will spend the coming days allowing the artifact to acclimate to its environment before preparing it to be displayed completely flat for the blockbuster exhibition opening to the public on September 10.
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The medieval Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London on Friday night after a grueling journey, marking the first time in more than 900 years that the work has left France to go on display in the British capital.
The Bayeux Tapestry, a priceless artifact documenting the Norman conquest of England in 1066, has arrived in the United Kingdom for the first time in 900 years, under strict security measures.
The world's most famous and valuable tapestry is back on British soil after nearly a thousand years. The Bayeux Tapestry was transported from France to the British Museum in London last night. News agency Reuters describes it as a reverse master heist: in the dead of night, the medieval masterpiece was secretly delivered to the museum and brought inside under strict security measures. It was already known that the transport would take place some…
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