The Bayeux Tapestry is on display in London at the British Museum for ten months, in an event that promises to break all visitation records in a city known for not being easily impressed. It is estimated that up to 7.5 million visitors will pass through the exhibition, which is described as the greatest battle ever embroidered and popularly known as the first comic strip in history.
French President Emmanuel Macron was present at the institutional premiere of the exhibition on the 2nd, marking the diplomatic importance of the event. The Bayeux Tapestry, a historical piece of French origin, thus travels to London in a demonstration of cultural cooperation between both countries.
Macron highlighted the significance of the exhibition by stating that when societies doubt, they need places and works of art that allow them to contemplate together what humanity is capable of creating and transmitting. The thousand-year-old piece, which narrates the conquest of England by Duke of Normandy William the Conqueror, thus becomes a laboratory of new cultural diplomacy between France and the United Kingdom.
