Catherine Pgard needs to place an finish to the controversy. The Minister of Tradition subsequently assured Wednesday that “nothing has been left to probability” with regard to theupcoming delivery of the Bayeux tapestry to London, the place it’s to be exhibited for a 12 months from September.
“Nothing, completely nothing, was left to probability, particularly with regard to the motion of this work,” declared the minister throughout a press convention in Paris, including that she “discovered the suspicions of incompetence that some wished to distill to be notably unfair.”
A particular fund to reassure consultants
The announcement in July 2025 by Emmanuel Macron The mortgage of this eleventh century masterpiece had aroused the priority of consultants, who warned of the dangers of long-term transport of this embroidery, 70 meters lengthy and weakened by the years.
To deal with this, the tapestry will journey, on an undisclosed date, to the British Museum in a crate specifically designed to dampen vibrations. In accordance with a technical examine revealed Wednesday by the Ministry of Tradition, on the finish of a second dry journey carried out in April, this field makes it potential to soak up “96% of the pressure of a major shock” over all the journey. The conclusions of this examine quantity to giving a inexperienced gentle to the transport of the tapestry, even when “zero threat doesn’t exist”, nonetheless recalled the minister.
A return to France on the finish of 2027
“In all probability by no means within the historical past of the transport of artworks have so many assessments, so many protocols, so many threat controls been carried out for a single journey”, additional assured Catherine Pgard, evaluating the field designed for the tapestry to “a cradle during which a new child would have been positioned”. And at his aspect, Lord Ricketts, particular envoy of the United Kingdom for the mortgage of the tapestry, expressed his nation’s “complete dedication” “to the safety of this work”.
Upon its return to France on the finish of 2027, the Bayeux tapestry will bear a restoration which had been deliberate for a very long time and which had been postponed.
