Bayeux tapestry
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What is it with this nation and the fact anything like this becomes a complete joke.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwvgrle6dx2lo
Its been in bayeux quite accessible if you have ever been that desperate to see it.
Im astounded they want 33 quid to see it as well, it cant be more than 30 mins in total.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwvgrle6dx2lo
Its been in bayeux quite accessible if you have ever been that desperate to see it.
Im astounded they want 33 quid to see it as well, it cant be more than 30 mins in total.
I saw it in Bayeux years ago, it was very cool and there were hardly any people which surprised me. We almost had the place to ourselves.
There is a replica (made in Victorian times) in Reading Museum which nobody seems to know about. IMHO the British Museum should be talking about the replica in Reading and encouraging people to go and see that instead. It would be good for Reading and the museum (more tourism). The Elizabeth Line goes to Reading so if you are in London anyway then it's doable transport wise. And it would help to highlight some of the lovely regional museums that really deserve more visitors.
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/your-visit/what-s...
Another idea - they should commission a modern replica and put it somewhere in the North. Surely it would be not expensive by museum standards.
The British Museum has the chance to do some good here
There is a replica (made in Victorian times) in Reading Museum which nobody seems to know about. IMHO the British Museum should be talking about the replica in Reading and encouraging people to go and see that instead. It would be good for Reading and the museum (more tourism). The Elizabeth Line goes to Reading so if you are in London anyway then it's doable transport wise. And it would help to highlight some of the lovely regional museums that really deserve more visitors.
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/your-visit/what-s...
Another idea - they should commission a modern replica and put it somewhere in the North. Surely it would be not expensive by museum standards.
The British Museum has the chance to do some good here
The reading one is a good shout but I’m not sure about the whole ‘go and visit it in Bayeau it’s cheaper’.
It might be but you have to shell out on either a Eurostar into Paris and back out (c£170 just for the trip to Gard du Nord) or the ferry to Caen and a car hire. Probably the best part of £200.
It might be but you have to shell out on either a Eurostar into Paris and back out (c£170 just for the trip to Gard du Nord) or the ferry to Caen and a car hire. Probably the best part of £200.
Ridgemont said:
The reading one is a good shout but I m not sure about the whole go and visit it in Bayeau it s cheaper .
It might be but you have to shell out on either a Eurostar into Paris and back out (c£170 just for the trip to Gard du Nord) or the ferry to Caen and a car hire. Probably the best part of £200.
Nobody was interested when it was in bayeux. When I heard it was coming here I thought about it but they had already closed the museum.It might be but you have to shell out on either a Eurostar into Paris and back out (c£170 just for the trip to Gard du Nord) or the ferry to Caen and a car hire. Probably the best part of £200.
The reading one would be interesting. The authentic one has lots of sewn in nudity with tackle out and stuff.
Would the prudish victorians replicated all that before proudly showing it to Queen Victoria?
I doubt it.
There's 40 minute slots for viewing, it sounds like people were taking longer to view it and causing delays, I'd think it should be fairly easy to enforce the limits though - shuffle everybody in for that slot and turn the tapestry's lights off after 40 minutes, or pull a curtain along or something? And then come out with a broom...
Gareth79 said:
There's 40 minute slots for viewing, it sounds like people were taking longer to view it and causing delays, I'd think it should be fairly easy to enforce the limits though - shuffle everybody in for that slot and turn the tapestry's lights off after 40 minutes, or pull a curtain along or something? And then come out with a broom...
I've been. Got an art pass so it was half price. It's a continuous shuffle. They really do keep telling you to keep moving. I was keeping pretty tight to the couple next to me, but to the right of them was some daft t
t that just kept on leaving a big gap. In the end I got pissed off and just bypassed her. And it's the odd nob like that that is causing delaysTakes about 30 minutes, the intro/background info queue takes about an hour.
Overall - it's one of my favourite things I've seen in a museum. It's fantastic, it's mad so much has survived, it's funny, it's brutal and it's iconic. BBC doc narrated by Palin is well worth a watch before you go. Which you should, because it's the Bayeux f
king tapestry
hondajack85 said:
Ridgemont said:
The reading one is a good shout but I m not sure about the whole go and visit it in Bayeau it s cheaper .
It might be but you have to shell out on either a Eurostar into Paris and back out (c£170 just for the trip to Gard du Nord) or the ferry to Caen and a car hire. Probably the best part of £200.
Nobody was interested when it was in bayeux. When I heard it was coming here I thought about it but they had already closed the museum.It might be but you have to shell out on either a Eurostar into Paris and back out (c£170 just for the trip to Gard du Nord) or the ferry to Caen and a car hire. Probably the best part of £200.
The reading one would be interesting. The authentic one has lots of sewn in nudity with tackle out and stuff.
Would the prudish victorians replicated all that before proudly showing it to Queen Victoria?
I doubt it.
There is one man who ended up with tackle covered by trousers but the current view is that that was because the recreators (35 of them!) were working off slightly duff photos. Which in itself is astonishing given that the copy was made in 1885 which is pretty much at the dawn of the photographic age.
The main issue appears to be the slightly off stitching and that the colours are a bit more vivid than the original version, mainly because it’s around 800 years younger..
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-ba...
Ridgemont said:
There is one man who ended up with tackle covered by trousers but the current view is that that was because the recreators (35 of them!) were working off slightly duff photos. Which in itself is astonishing given that the copy was made in 1885 which is pretty much at the dawn of the photographic age.
Gets better, the photos were taken in 1872 by Joseph Cundall. And since we're shoe-horning references to Reading in, he co-founded the Calotype Club with a view to bringing together gentleman amateurs to exchange photographs and perfect the paper-negative process Henry Fox Talbot had invented in 1841 in Reading. bigandclever said:
Ridgemont said:
There is one man who ended up with tackle covered by trousers but the current view is that that was because the recreators (35 of them!) were working off slightly duff photos. Which in itself is astonishing given that the copy was made in 1885 which is pretty much at the dawn of the photographic age.
Gets better, the photos were taken in 1872 by Joseph Cundall. And since we're shoe-horning references to Reading in, he co-founded the Calotype Club with a view to bringing together gentleman amateurs to exchange photographs and perfect the paper-negative process Henry Fox Talbot had invented in 1841 in Reading. 
It is odd that there is such a hooha about it now it's in London. You'd think it had just been discovered;) The power of the BM as an international cultural marketing machine I guess.
We went to see it in Bayeux last summer. 5min queue and 13 euros each. It's a wonderful thing that does deserve to be better known. Be interesting to see how visitor number go when it is back home.
I didn't know about the copy in Reading. Trip on the Lizzy line beckons to have a look at that, tks!
We went to see it in Bayeux last summer. 5min queue and 13 euros each. It's a wonderful thing that does deserve to be better known. Be interesting to see how visitor number go when it is back home.
I didn't know about the copy in Reading. Trip on the Lizzy line beckons to have a look at that, tks!
dontlookdown said:
It is odd that there is such a hooha about it now it's in London. You'd think it had just been discovered;) The power of the BM as an international cultural marketing machine I guess.
We went to see it in Bayeux last summer. 5min queue and 13 euros each. It's a wonderful thing that does deserve to be better known. Be interesting to see how visitor number go when it is back home.
I didn't know about the copy in Reading. Trip on the Lizzy line beckons to have a look at that, tks!
It'd imagine its now much easier and cheaper for many in the uk to see in london than france hence the interest. We went to see it in Bayeux last summer. 5min queue and 13 euros each. It's a wonderful thing that does deserve to be better known. Be interesting to see how visitor number go when it is back home.
I didn't know about the copy in Reading. Trip on the Lizzy line beckons to have a look at that, tks!
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