British Museum Opens Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition
On Thursday, the British Museum opens its blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, its most eagerly anticipated show in decades.
The British Museum's highly anticipated Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, set to open to the public on Thursday, is being sponsored by Igor Tulchinsky, a billionaire venture capitalist. Tulchinsky, founder and CEO of WorldQuant, is also the head of a defense technology-focused venture capital fund in Israel. This fund, WorldQuant Genesis, is headed by Major General Saar Tzur, a former Israeli army commander who has been vocal about the use of remote-controlled weapons in Gaza, which rights groups have described as a "tool for committing genocide".
The sponsorship deal for the exhibition is valued at £5m ($6.75m). The museum has faced criticism over Tulchinsky's business interests, with calls for an investigation into the removal of references to Palestine in its galleries and controversy over sponsorship deals.
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