Angers - Tenture de l'Apocalypse

A specially built modern glass gallery houses one of the great masterpieces of medieval tapestry, the Tenture de l'Apocalypse, woven by the Paris weaver Nicolas Bataille in 1375-1380 after drawings by Hennequin of Bruges. 168 m/550ft long and 5 m/16ft wide, it originally consisted of seven parts, of which 70 complete scenes have survived. The theme is the Revelation of St John. The gallery also displays reproductions of the scenes and the relevant passages from the Bible.

At the far end of the exhibition hall, below floor level, the apse of a Romanesque church has been exposed.