The Bayeux tapestry, an almost thousand-year-old artwork that depicts events leading up to the Norman conquest of England and the Battle of Hastings, will be on display in the British Museum later this year.
The roughly 70-metre-long artwork is on a controversial loan from its usual French abode.
“This will be the first time the Bayeux Tapestry has been in the UK since it was made, almost 1,000 years ago,” Dr Nicholas Cullinan, OBE, director of the British Museum, said.
Recently, the British Museum revealed how it will display the UNESCO-designated tapestry in what they call a “first look”, too, with an ...
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