D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery

Portsmouth's D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery reveals the dramatic story of ‘Operation Overlord’ (the codename for the Normandy Landings in 1944). Portsmouth was at the centre of these operations and now you can revisit the ‘Faces of History’ (Churchill, Montgomery and Eisenhower) as they come alive in 34 panels of the magnificent 272-foot, ‘Overlord Embroidery’. The Overlord Embroidery was designed by Sandra Lawrence and made by the Royal School of Needlework between 1968 and 1973 for the late Lord Dulverton of Batsford. He commissioned it as a tribute to the sacrifice and heroism of those men and women who took part. It traces in stunning visual form the progress of ‘Operation Overlord’ from its origins in the dark days of 1940 to victory in Normandy in 1944. Combined with a unique and dramatic film show using archive film to create a moving experience that captures the atmosphere of the wartime years The ‘D-Day Story’ continues with stirring museum displays and exhibits on the Home Front, the Airborne drop, Mulberry Harbour and ‘Beach Landing’ galleries, where you can board an original LCVP landing craft. You will experience what it was like to live through this period of wartime Britain and the vital part that the D-Day landings made to our Island history.

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