Bayeux tapestry

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Will benefit claimants get reduced price tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry ?

Doubt it. Discounts are reserved for those with war service if any.

JSA claimants and disabled people get a discount but it's still £25 a ticket (vs £36 I think for full price). However the tickets for the first 3 months of the exhibition sold out extremely quickly, so I'd expect any further tickets to have to be booked in advance, probably on day of release.

If you go to the British Museum website you'll see that there's a variety of tickets including concessions for disabled and students and jobseekers, plus there's off peak and super off peak pricings with same range of concessions. HOWEVER everything is sold out until the 31st of December but there will be further releases of tickets later on in the year.
I'm a member so entitled to free tickets and priority booking but I haven't even tried, I find these high-pressure ticket sales a pain in the arse. But if you want to try and get any kind of tickets when they release more you need to register interest so you know when the relevant tickets are released for sale.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions-events

I hope not I’ve saved up all year for mine, I’m not currently working due to my health. And queued all day yesterday to get it. It cost £27 in the end so less than I expected as an off peak time I assume. There was a student and job seekers price showing but I was just focusing on paying my ticket.

Come to Reading. There's an excellent copy in the Town Museum (3 minutes from the bus and train stations) and it's FREE!

They are doing three releases of tickets.

Wow! I did not know about this. It sounds absolutely worth visiting. Thank you.
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/bayeux-tapestry

Thanks for this.
I did not know this.

Definitely looks worth a visit one day.

Love Reading tapestry display plus there is a fair bit of interesting historic stuff in the museum itself and a Roman town walls of Silchester as well as remains of Roman amphitheatre
Also a ruined Reading Abbey a stone's throw from the museum.

All free too.

This!! I made a trip just to see it when I was visiting g London for a few days and it was incredible.

I’m so surprised at how much people want to see this. Maybe because it’s a famous art and history thing you can still see that we get taught at school?
I’ve ignored all the member emails from the British Museum, have no interest at all. Really keen to know what I’m missing though.

Can’t recommend it enough. They also do very reasonably priced guided tour and has a very nice little cafe downstairs.

Wow, thank you!

It's an amazing piece of art, nearly 1000 years old. Not a lot of these kind of items have survived so long. The details are amazing.

How many other items outside buildings and maybe re-discovered or in royal vaults items of stone and metal can you think of which remains from this time period?

We got a membership purely to have priority booking rights (and I still was 3.5 hours in the queue).

We actually considered a 2 day trip to Caen once but the travel costs were too high.

I’m not sure I’ve understood your question @reluctantbrit- do you mean how many 1,000 year old plus items not made of stone or metal are available to us? No idea, I don’t want to see this one though. Just interested in what draws people - is it just the age then?

For me it's partly the age and partly the detail, and also that it feels like some sort of cultural touch point as in, everyone has heard of the Bayeux Tapestry. Curiosity about whether it's actually worth writing home about.

I would imagine a proportion of those who have booked to go, will be booking to be able to say they've gone. Being generous, a "bucket list" thing. Being less generous, an influencer thing.

As long as folks are engaging with culture and history, it's a job well done.

I saw it in Caen in the 70s, and it fascinated me then and still does. Amazing piece of work ❤️

I saw it in France. As an ungrateful teen. I do remember being a bit impressed though! Now I'd love to go and see it but couldnt face the ticket scrum. The reading tip is awesome.

I did think about going to see the mappa mundi again, that was a great day out!

I managed to get tickets yesterday,we are so excited!! Look on the site as it explains the pricing there .

For me yes, the fact that it survived at all and still is available tor me to see what people saw a 1000 years ago.

We have plenty of stone and metal objects around plus obviously buildings but a piece of fabric?

I am a history nerd so the tapestry was always on my must-see list. Just thinking how the idea of how the victorious party painted the past is not a new concept and how also small things can influence how an event is told for centuries afterwards. The tapestry is responsible for the "arrow in the eye" myths for example.

Ticket scrum was very civilized , they email you when it's your turn in the queue. I logged on at exactly 10 and there were 5 thousand people in front of me, managed to get tickets at 2pm.

I also recommend Reading museum, though be aware the Victorian embroiderers censored the penises, so it's almost an exact copy, but not quite.

I have seen the Reading one a number of times, and also the real thing, as I grew up in Dorchester, which is twinned with Bayeux, so that's where our French exchange trips were. But I'm still going to this one with a friend. I do go to a lot of other exhibitions, though.

I’ve seen it in France and just got tickets for London. Took two attempts and a long wait but am very happy (it’s now sold out). It’s a beautiful piece of textile history.
sorry, no idea about discounts though.

I had 83,000 people ahead of me in the queue at my first attempt!

Omg! 😱