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The British Museum is to show the Bayeux tapestry next year to what is the largest “blockbuster” exhibition of London, in a movement of secret levels of high diplomacy levels.
President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed a loan at the beginning of his three-day visit to British State – which will participate in the British Museum who sent treasures from Sutton Hoo Going Shills and the Lewis Chessmen in France.
The 110m of the 11th century tapestry describes the events of the Norman conquering in Britain in 1066 and thought to be mounted in England. It is shown in different French museums in its entire history, but not in a UK museum.
Culture culture represents a surprise victory for its British Museum in its rival in London, the V & A.
“It’s the blockbuster’s performance of our generation,” says George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum and former Conservative Chandlellor.
Ang bayeux tapestry modapit sa mga kaamgid sa bantog nga exhibithamun nga Tutankhamun sa museyo nga gisugdan sa 1972, apan ang balita nahinabo sa poste sa V & A, nga kini sa posisyon sa V & A, nga naghunahuna sa poste sa tape.
“The eyebrows were raised,” said an officer, claiming that Macron expressed a visit to London in 2018 in Theresa May protection to the South Kensington Museum.
The V & A leading an association with the conservation of Normandy’s Bayeux Museum, where the tapestry was set. “Finally it’s good news for UK-Prance culture relationship,” The officer has been done.
Macron, in a Westminster talk on Tuesday, says about loan agreement:
The deal was set in May at Dathi Previous Culture, the Minister of France, told the UK culture minister Chris Bryant what France wanted to get back.
Those short discussions say Previously explained the treasures of Sutton Hoo, about a remarkable partly-century-Saxon demanded in France.
The bad news for V & A, whose director is former Tristram Hunt Brandram, so Sutton Hoo Hoard is located in the British Museum. Talks then began to heal how to make a move to a fact.
Osborne was taken with the director of the British Museum Nicholas Cullas and it could easily turn the institution to appear at the climate and the proper climate control and the proper climate controls to show good work.
The British Museum also gives debt to Lewis Chessmen, medieval chess fragments discovered in 1831 in the Isle of Lewis, in French museums.
The details of the agreement are placed so that the advertisement is alike to visit the Macron state this week. V & A is kept in the dark.
Mr. Redickets in Lord Peter, the former Ambassador in Paris, and Philippe Bélimal, Macron’s Cultural Specter.
Bayeux tapestry comes to UK in 2026 with British Museum officials say they expect the exhibition for about a year.
Lisa Nandy, Secretary of Culture, said: “This debt is a symbol of our shared history with our France friends.” He said British Museum was a “fitting place to host this most precious piece of history in our country”.
Expected to close the Bayeux Museum at the end of August for two years before the tapestry of a new building in 2027, the 1st anniversary of William’s Winner’s Winner.
For Osborne, the ambitious cultural exchange is a template for his expected more controversial debt deals, involving Parthenon Sculpturessometimes known as marble elgin.
Osborne talked to Greek Government about a temporary loan of sculptures, laid by the British Museum, in Athens not yet seen in Britain.
