Michael Lewis

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HistoryExtra podcast · The Bayeux Tapestry blockbuster at the British Museum · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

And what will happen is you're transported back to the battlefield today with kind of some what we call light boards that illustrate the battle.

And they'll have some kind of key phrases there to make you understand that you've kind of come back to the Battle of Hastings today.

where this sort of big clash was.

We'll be exhibiting some arms and armour, including a loan from Austria of a conical helmet, the type that's used there, and quite an imaginative display of arms and armour.

So the idea is that's to get people sort of in the mood, really, of coming off the busy streets of London and then getting ready to see the Bay of Tapestry.

Then there's going to be a bit of a film called

that provides people a bit of information about how this exhibition is going to work.

I think it's kind of quite interesting that the British Museum has done this because I think it's kind of a nod to its traditional visitors that this isn't going to be like what they normally do, i.e.

you go to a room and you can just kind of disperse and do what you like.

This is a more managed visit in that respect because of the reasons I've explained in terms of allowing as many people to see the tapestry

and within the confines of not being able to show it 24-7.

Then people will go up the stairs onto what we're calling the bridge.

Now the reason the bridge exists is because of the configuration of that room and because we need to have people coming into the tapestry one way and coming out another.

And the bridge allows that to happen with people kind of going over, if you like, the exit from the exhibition.

There's a lift, of course, which allows people to come up one end and go down the other, or stairs, depending on people's needs.

And on that bridge, we're going to have kind of three, if you like, animations, which are shown alongside objects that are relevant to those.

So we do have loans into the exhibition, but the idea of these loans is they're going to work hard against the Bayer tapestry.

We've had to be really selective in what they are and what they do.

But essentially on the bridge, and I won't give too much away because I don't want to completely spoil it for people, but it will give you the who, where, why and when as much as is possible.

As you know, the answers to those questions is fairly open.

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