Tens of Thousands Try for Tickets to See Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum
Tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry’s exhibition at the British Museum sold out in just over 24 hours, with the museum calling it the biggest day of ticket sales in its history, according to the Telegraph as reported by ARTnews.com. The 230-foot-long embroidery, depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and made in the 1070s, will be shown in London from September 10, 2026, to July 11, 2027, marking the first public exhibition of the work on British soil in its nearly 1,000-year history. When tickets for September–December went on sale on Wednesday, July 1 at 10:00am BST, about 80,000 people joined an online queue with waits up to nine hours, and another 40,000 queued the next day before learning the tranche had sold out; additional ticket releases are planned for October and January. Adult tickets are priced at £33 peak and £27 off-peak (children under 16 free), and the tapestry will travel by road to the Eurotunnel and then by a dedicated train with conservators and guards, with police escorts on both sides of the Channel after successful vibration test runs.
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