The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum from 10 September 2026 to 11 July 2027, and your ticket gives you a short, timed slot in front of nearly seventy metres of eleventh-century embroidery. This free guide is built for exactly that walk. The narration runs twenty minutes, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian or Chinese.
It is a web page, not an app. Open it on your phone, press play, and it moves along the cloth at walking pace, showing you which scene you should be standing in front of and what the embroidered Latin above it says. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, no charge.
Photography is not permitted in the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, so the camera on the audioguide.london home page will not work there. Open audioguide.london/bayeux-tapestry directly instead, before you go in, and keep your phone in your hand.
audioguide.london now covers the British Museum’s permanent galleries too, in beta. This walking guide is separate, made for the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, where photography is not allowed.
All 58 numbered scenes, from Edward the Confessor on his throne to the English turning in flight at Hastings — the embroidered Latin inscription for each one, a translation, and where it falls along the cloth. The tapestry's own ending is lost, and the guide says so when you reach it.
Audioguide.London is a free audio guide for London museums, paid for by nobody and selling nothing. The imagery this guide is built on is in the public domain, from the digitisation credited at the foot of the guide itself.
Yes. There is no charge, no account and no app. You still need a British Museum exhibition ticket to get in — that part is not free, and it is not something we sell or arrange.
No. Photography is not permitted in the exhibition. That also means the camera on the audioguide.london home page, which normally identifies a painting from a photo, will not work here. Open audioguide.london/bayeux-tapestry directly instead.
Yes, in beta. Over 1,000 objects in the permanent galleries so far, and growing: photograph an object or type the audio number on its label. The Bayeux Tapestry exhibition has this separate walking guide because photography is not allowed there.
Yes, if you save it first. Tap the save button on the guide while you still have a connection and everything it needs is stored on your device.
The museum has its own audio app covering its collection and exhibitions, in several languages. Ours is independent of it and free to use; you are welcome to use either, or both.