RSHP Reveals Design for New Museum Woven into the Existing Urban 'Tapestry' of Bayeux, France

Maria-Cristina Florian

February 8

Bayeux Tapestry Museum - Aerial visualisation of the museum from the north. Image © RSHP

RSHP has unveiled the urban and architectural design for the new Bayeux Tapestry Museum. The intervention is created to house and display the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth measuring 70 meters in length and depicting the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and culminating in the Battle of Hastings. The almost 1000 years-old artifact is also included in UNESCO's "Memory of the World" list. The project proposes a contemporary extension of the 17th-century seminary where the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux is located.