Bayeux Tapestry: Mine clearance operation surrounding a contested loan
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The tapestry has been moved from the Bayeux Museum, currently closed for renovation, to a secret location in France for conservation, before being loaned to the British Museum in September 2026. LOU BENOIST / AFP
Welcoming the "successful" crating of the very fragile embroidery on September 18, 2025, the Ministry of Culture said on Monday that it was ready to "take up the technical challenge" of transporting it across the Channel, scheduled for June or July 2026.
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I subscribeWill the Bayeux Tapestry, considered in January "too fragile to be moved over a long distance," according to an advisor to the Normandy regional directorate of cultural affairs, in a video from the Drac broadcast by the website La Tribune de l'art, still be shipped across the Channel next year to be exhibited at the British Museum? President Emmanuel Macron promised this on July 8 during his trip to London, in order to "revive the cultural relationship" with the United Kingdom.
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