It is being loaned to the British Museum while its usual home in France undergoes renovation - doors open at 10:00 BST and tickets are sold out for the rest of the year.

LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The first visitors to the British Museum's blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition spoke of their excitement at seeing with their own eyes the 1,000-year-old embroidery many remember from school lessons.

It’s perhaps the most famous textile in the world. But getting it to England required years of diplomacy, a horde of engineers, and a touch of kindness from the French.

Each tiny mark tells a story about the tapestry’s chequered past. As Historian Dan Snow concludes in the film: “It has no business still being here! It has survived at least two major fires in Bayeux Cathedral. It survived Napoleon, who snatched it off and exhibited it in Paris. It survived the First World War, the Second World War!”

The 230-foot tapestry telling the story of William the Conqueror’s 1066 invasion reflects a “really seismic moment in British history,” the project’s curator told NBC News.

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It's been unveiled by Tom Daley at the Natural History Museum ahead of the cinema release of Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom on 18 September. Inspired by the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry, the 'Baa-Ewe Tapestry' is a piece of textile artwork.