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The Bayeux Tapestry museum comprises both the Tapestry itself, whose custodianship is entrusted by the French State to the municipal collections, and the accompanying museographical visit. Studies are currently under way to examine how best to redesign the museum within the former seminary, with the opening planned in 2027. The project is intended both to enhance the way the public is introduced to the work and above all to improve its conservation and the way it is presented.
Work on the project is being directed by the City of Bayeux and the decentralised services of the French Ministry of Culture (DRAC Normandie), with the support of the Calvados General Council and the Normandy Regional Council.
As the owner of the Bayeux Tapestry, the State services are carrying out, in parallel with the museum’s renovation work, an ambitious conservation program around the thousand-year-old embroidery. This is how vast operations began in January 2025, with the meticulous dusting of the linen canvas and the removal of its technical backing, a fleece affixed in 1983, which, although protecting the work on its back, stiffened and weighed it down. These upstream interventions will facilitate the extraction of the work from its display case when the museum’s renovation work begins in the fall of 2025.
PLEASE NOTE! During an exceptional closure of the museum from March 31 to April 2, 2025, the handling of a facsimile of the Tapestry will make it possible to test the logistical conditions for the extraction of the original artwork, in September, from its current display case, and its packaging in a conservation crate followed by its transport to temporary reserves.
To find out more about the project schedule, go to our section TOWARDS A NEW MUSEUM IN 2027
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