The Bayeux Tapestry

The British Museum presents the Bayeux Tapestry in England for the first time since it was made almost 1,000 years ago.

Measuring around 70 metres, the monumental embroidery depicts the events leading to the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest of 1066. Beyond warfare and political history, its densely populated scenes record clothing, ships, architecture, ritual and everyday life in the 11th century.

The loan from France is a major cultural event and places one of the best-known surviving objects of the medieval world within a new British Museum context.