Marie-Louise Gumuchian gets a sneak peek of the sell-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. It depicts the brutal reality of battle scenes on the 70-meter 1,000-year-old embroidery on loan to the British Museum ▻ ↧ UK's Bayeux Tapestry exhibition set to wow visitors with battle sce... Visitors to the sell-out Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition should ‌be ready for the "brutal reality" of battle scenes and expect to be astonished by the scale of the 1,000-year-old embroidery, as excitement mounts ahead of the London show's opening on Thursday.