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Bayeux on the Balcony
A full-size print of the Bayeux Tapestry unrolled across Dovecot's Balcony Gallery, the first time its full scale is shown in Scotland, with insight from the British Museum.
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Preview: written before the show opened
A full-size print of the Bayeux Tapestry will be unrolled across the length and breadth of Dovecot's Balcony Gallery. Dovecot describes it as the first time the immense scale of the Tapestry has been seen in Scotland.
The display marks the historic loan of the Tapestry to the UK and is part of Bayeux Around Britain. Its focus is the Tapestry's legacy to contemporary artists, designers and makers. The British Museum provides the interpretation, and Dovecot's weavers and community embroiderers add their own view, comparing medieval textile storytelling with modern fine art tapestry. It is a story told as one long sideways scroll, much like your thumb on the Lothian 3 into town, only with Normans.
Opening times are shorter than the rest of the building: Monday to Friday 12pm to 3pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm. The wider gallery and shop open 10am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday.
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A full-size print of the Bayeux Tapestry unrolled along Dovecot's Balcony Gallery, its full scale shown in Scotland for the first time, with input from the British Museum. Free, and four and a half hours closer than the original.
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The full-size print on the Balcony Gallery
The Tapestry's whole length is unrolled across the Balcony Gallery, so you see it at the scale the Bayeux Tapestry was made.
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- Bayeux on the Balcony© Bayeux Museum
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- Scotland's First WarriorsNational Museums Scotland
- Dovecot StudiosMike Wilkinson, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Surgeons' Hall MuseumsRConnor21 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Talbot Rice GalleryVysotsky / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museum of ChildhoodPretzelles / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- National Museum of ScotlandMaccoinnich / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0