Bayeux Tapestry goes on display in UK for first time at sold-out London exhibit

Where to See the World’s Bayeux Tapestry Replicas

There are full-size replicas in a U.S. sports arena, an abbey in Denmark and a home in rural New Zealand. There’s even a more modest version for those who don’t like the original’s nudity.

By Alex Marshall

Bayeux Tapestry exhibition at British Museum opens

The British Museum has so far sold a record 100,000 tickets for the highly anticipated showing of the medieval artwork depicting the 1066 Battle of Hastings.

Visitors delighted to see Bayeux tapestry on display in the UK for the first time – video

Hundreds queued outside the British Museum on Thursday as the exhibit of the Bayeux tapestry opened. The 70 metre-long masterpiece will be on show in London for 10 months, having left France for the first time since the 11th century. Believed to have been sewn by English seamstresses before being taken to France, the embroidery tells the story of the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings and the subsequent Norman defeat of Anglo-Saxon King Harold II. The Bayeux tapestry: why more women...

Bayeux craze sweeps across the U.K. as 1,000-year-old tapestry exhibition opens in London

Ticket holders are allotted 40 minutes to view the 70-metre-long tapestry from an elevated platform, before heading down some stairs to view the stitching up close

Bayeux Tapestry goes on display at sold-out London exhibit

The nearly 1,000 year-old, 70-meter-long tapestry is considered a symbol of UK-France friendship. More than 100,000 tickets have been sold.

Bayeux Tapestry 'mania' sweeps UK as sold-out exhibition opens

London's sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition will open Thursday to a British public gripped by "mania" as the medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England goes on display outside France for the first time.

Crowds flock to see Bayeux Tapestry on show at British Museum for first time

A number of visitors have dressed in medieval clothing for the occasion

By Holly Evans

Bayeux Tapestry 'mania' sweeps UK as sold-out exhibition opens

London's sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition opens on Thursday to a British public gripped by "mania" as the medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England goes on display outside France for the first time.

By RFI