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Mary Beard suggests ‘tweaks’ to British Museum’s handling of queues to see Bayeux tapestry

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What happened

Classicist and museum trustee visited the line after people complained of waiting for hours, with some turned away Mary Beard has intervened in the row about excessively long queues for the Bayeux tapestry by visiting the line and submitting a list of improvements to the British Museum. Beard, 71, is a trustee of the museum and inspected the queue herself after visitors to the tapestry complained that they had to wa…

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