V&A Museum acquires the Glastonbury Festival Archive

13th June 2014

We’re delighted to announce a collaboration with London’s V&A – the world’s greatest museum of art and design – to create an archive reflecting more than 40 years of diverse and creative performance at Glastonbury Festival.

This eclectic archive includes a range of material, from programmes and posters from every festival since 1970, designs for the Festival identity, interviews, unseen film and photographs, correspondence, T-shirts, tickets and other memorabilia. Personal accounts and documents trace the origins of the Festival and festival maps reveal how it has grown and developed within the landscape.

At the end of each Festival, Glastonbury will work on the archive with the V&A (which recently hosted the acclaimed David Bowie exhibition). The intention is to document the evolution of the site, performances and the audiences that continue to make the Festival a rich celebration of creativity and contemporary culture.

Selected highlights from the archive will be on display in the V&A’s Theatre and Performance Galleries from March 2015 – January 2016.

A film installation gathered from the 2014 Glastonbury Festival will be shown at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery Prague as part of the Prague Quadrennial from 28 May – 28 June 2015.