The British Museum Is Recreating the Bayeux Tapestry's Medieval Woodland

""The museum is a vast monochromatic monolith, and I wanted the installation to be colorful and uplifting, and to signify the welcoming of the tapestry to the museum," Sturgeon said in a statement. "The trees reach out towards the street entrance as if beckoning it to enter.""

A woodland installation called “Tapestry of Trees” will be installed in the British Museum forecourt from May 16 to June 2. The installation features a canopy of 37 silver birch trees and planters filled with woodland grasses and perennial species placed along the top of the museum’s front steps. The design aims to recreate the medieval woodland landscape of East Sussex, associated with the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and to reflect the original colors of the Bayeux Tapestry. Rootballs and planters will be wrapped in hessian and dyed to match the tapestry’s blues, yellows, and reds. The planters will include Guelder Rose, Hazel, Dog Rose, Foxglove, and Male Fern, with trees reaching toward the street entrance to invite visitors in.

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