British Museum Starts £33 Bayeux Tapestry Ticket Sales on July 1
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 30
British Museum Starts £33 Bayeux Tapestry Ticket Sales on July 1
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 30
Summary
£33 tickets for the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition go on sale on July 1, with each visit limited to 40 minutes.
The 70-metre embroidery, depicting the 1066 Norman conquest, is being loaned from Bayeux in Normandy after surviving there for centuries.
The exhibition’s arrival in London is being treated as a major cultural event, though the report notes the tapestry was likely embroidered in Kent in the 1070s.
That loan is also cast as a prompt to revisit Britain’s wider medieval heritage—from Durham and Ely to Conwy and Salisbury—much of it cheaper or free to see.