The British Museum announced ticketing for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition running from 10 September to 11 July 2027, with the top adult price set at £33. Off-peak adult tickets are priced at £27, with specific off-peak times to be confirmed. Students and disabled visitors pay £25 at all times. Tickets are limited to 40-minute time slots. Super-off-peak tickets cost £25 for the last timed slot each weekday between 15.30 and 16.20 during school term time. Booking opens 1 July for the first tranche, with a maximum of 12 tickets per booking and cancellations for multiple bookings from the same email address. Members must book free timed tickets in advance starting 16 June at 12.30, with two separate visits included during the full run. The Bayeux Tapestry will be shown in the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery while its home in Normandy is renovated, marking a near 1,000-year return to Britain. A related installation of 37 silver birch trees, Tapestry of Trees, is on display on the museum forecourt until 2 June.
"At off-peak times, the standard adult price falls to £27 (these times are to be confirmed). Students and disabled visitors will be charged £25 at all times; all slots are time limited at 40 minutes. Meanwhile "super-off-peak" tickets priced at £25 will also be available for the last timed slot of each weekday, between 15.30 and 16.20, in school term time."
"Booking opens 1 July for the first tranche of tickets. There will be a maximum of 12 tickets per booking (multiple bookings from the same email address will be cancelled, says the museum website). Members will need to book a free timed ticket for the exhibition in advance. They will be able to do so online from 12.30 on 16 June before public tickets go on sale."
""Every member will be able to book two separate visits during the full run of the display at no additional cost, plus a discount for further visits (more details to be confirmed soon)," adds the museum. The Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the 1066 Norman invasion and Battle of Hastings, will be displayed in the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery of the British Museum from September until July 2027, while its current home, the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in Normandy, undergoes renovations."
"Meanwhile, an installation of 37 silver birch trees ( Betula pendula), inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, has been unveiled on the museum forecourt. The work, entitled Tapestry of Trees (until 2 June) was created by the garden designer Andy Sturgeon. "The installation will give visitors the chance to immerse themselves in Sturgeon's artistic impression of a medieval woodland, created from trees and plants typical of t"
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