Bayeux Tapestry will not be hung again

The 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry will no longer hang when it returns to France from an exhibition in Britain, with the masterpiece to be displayed on an inclined table instead.
France's Culture Minister Catherine Pegard said the change would help preserve the 68-metre tapestry and improve the visitor experience.
The tapestry went on display horizontally at London's British Museum in September after being transported from its home museum in Normandy, where it had hung since the 1980s.
The Bayeux Museum is undergoing renovations during the London exhibition, which has attracted around 100,000 visitors.
Writing on X, Pegard said the tapestry 'will be displayed along its entire length on an inclined table' when it returns next year.
She said the London trip had not altered the work and that changing its display had been under consideration for about a decade.
Lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy called the decision a 'scandal', alleging without evidence that the tapestry had been damaged during transportation.
Some conservation experts had raised concerns about moving the fragile work. Two broken threads were observed after the journey, but Pegard said in September that it remained 'in the same state'.
The tapestry depicts the 1066 Battle of Hastings, marking the start of William the Conqueror's invasion of England with his Norman army.
Its origins remain uncertain, although it is widely believed to have been made in England before being transferred to Bayeux.
'We will see the Tapestry again in a new museum, with a new presentation', Pegard wrote. — AFP