Bayeux Tapestry Museum

Why visit

Bayeux Tapestry Museum is a museum or interpretation site in or near Bayeux, valued for the way it brings together place, history and physical evidence in a setting that can be understood on foot. At Bayeux Tapestry Museum, focus on principal galleries or displays, building and collection context, interpretive material.

What you will see

• principal galleries or displays.
• building and collection context.
• interpretive material.

History

The museum preserves and interprets the 11th-century embroidered narrative traditionally known as the Bayeux Tapestry, which recounts events leading to the Norman conquest of England in 1066.

Visitor tips

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   Confirm the current public entrance or trailhead before departure.

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   Allow extra time for security, parking, steep approaches, queues or weather where relevant.

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   Respect worship, conservation, protected-landscape and photography rules shown on site.

About Normandy

Medieval pilgrimage, D-Day memory, river ports, Impressionist landscapes and chalk cliffs are central to Normandy’s visitor geography.