British Museum opens blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition after ticket scramble
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British Museum opens blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition after ticket scramble
Macron and King Charles view Bayeux Tapestry on historic first loan to Britain
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The British Museum opened its blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition on Thursday, its most eagerly anticipated show in decades .
Visitors described frantic efforts to secure tickets, with some comparing the process to the scramble for concert seats. Megan Stockwell, a Francophile, waited an hour in an online queue with her toes in the sand to book her spot. She called the tapestry, on loan until next July, a visual representation of the Franco-British relationship through the Norman conquest and the Battle of Hastings. Cydney, a history graduate from Texas, woke at 3 a.m. local time to join a 90-minute online queue, calling the experience “life-changing.” Adrian Harris, who signed up for museum membership for early access, was the second person through the doors on Thursday morning and described seeing the tapestry as “very, very moving” .
The exhibition’s first visitors were given 40 minutes to view the 70-meter tapestry, and even the first in line reported being barged past by others .
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