Michael Lewis

Michael John Lewis is lead Curator of the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition, previously Head of the Portable Antiquities Scheme.

Career Lewis studied at the University of Surrey (Roehampton) and the University of York before researching his PhD at the University of Kent, completed in 2004.

Between 2012 and 2017 Lewis was a special constable with the Metropolitan Police Art & Antiques Unit.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 4 April 2006. He is Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Art Scholars and an adviser to the All Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group.

Select publications with P. Deckers & S. Thomas. 2016. Aspects of Non-Professional Metal Detecting in Europe. Open Archaeology. with N. Speakman 2016. Los Pilares de Europa: la edad media en el British Museum. British Museum/ObraSocial la Caixa. 2014. Saints and their Badges: saints’ lives and medieval pilgrim badge. Greenlight publishing. with G. Owen-Crocker & D. Terkla. 2011. New Research on the Bayeux Tapestry: proceedings of aconference at the British Museum. Oxbow. with G. Egan, K. Leahy, J. Naylor & S. Worrell. 2010. A Decade of Discovery: proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007. British Archaeological Reports 2008.. The Real World of the Bayeux Tapestry. The History Press.