Musee de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux

Amazing to experience this historical tapestry. The movie on the top floor cycles between English and French is a must in understanding the background of the tapestry. Be aware that the audio tour that is included in admission plays straight through only once. No backing up. The middle floor has some great models of boats and structures of the time period.

The audio guide for the tapestry felt rushed, and you couldn't pause it! Since they didn't organize the people going in, this led to the formations of large groups of people in front of the tapestry, and sometimes you couldn't get to see the scene that the audio guide was talking about. The contents of the guide itself were pretty good; and the museum upstairs has very interesting information about what happened after the events told in the tapestry. It's an OK visit for the ticket price, but I'm grateful that I didn't visit Bayeux just for this one museum.

It's worth it! Audio guide well-organized, queue gets moving quickly enough, very informative, gift shop well maintained. And I had no idea the tapestry was that long. It's about 70 metres long! Not joking! The tapestry tells the story about William of Normandy coming to England and claiming power and killing the saxons. You get an audio-controller from the personnel, and it tells you the story. Recommended!

The embroidery is just fantastic. It is 70meters long and the museum provides great access to see it. We armed ourselves and the kids with a few documentary programs before we came to see it and it paid off. We recognised a lot of the scenes and were able to interpret it fairly well. This really made the experience special.

Excellent and reasonably priced. Audio guide is well done and really brings the tapestry to life. Good gift shop too. Worth viewing the room upstairs after the Tapestry itself to get more context & information.