The Baa-Ewe Tapestry

The Baa-Ewe Tapestry is on display at the Natural History Museum in the Darwin Centre West Wing, running from 9 September to 1 November 2026. It's a seven-metre-long handcrafted textile artwork that reimagines the Bayeux Tapestry through the lens of Shaun the Sheep.

Instead of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, this one charts the Halloween-themed exploits of Shaun, Bitzer and the inhabitants of Mossy Bottom Farm, taken from Aardman's third stop-motion feature, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, produced with Sky and STUDIOCANAL. A team of 15 designers and textile specialists spent more than 180 hours crafting it using traditional embroidery techniques, more than five kilometres of yarn and ten colours. It comes out to roughly one-tenth the length of the medieval original.

Olympic gold medallist Tom Daley also left his mark on it. He founded the knitting and crochet brand Made With Love after becoming known for knitting between events at the Tokyo Olympics, and he knitted a miniature sweater vest for Shaun that appears in the final section. He wore a matching jumper reading 'Tom the Human' to the unveiling.

It's free and drop-in, so you can just pop into the Darwin Centre whenever suits you. It runs until 1 November, so there's plenty of time to catch it if you're around the museum this autumn.