The history of Glastonbury Festival
"When I set out on this crazy, hippy trip, little did I know that this roller coaster would run".
The Glastonbury Festival Archive
Plan a visitGlastonbury Festival is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. In 2014, the V&A acquired guardianship of the Glastonbury Festival Archive, an eclectic and growing resource that reveals how the Festival has developed over the past 50 years to become the global cultural phenomenon it is today.
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The archive includes posters, programmes, designs, interviews, film, photographs, correspondence, t-shirts, tickets and other memorabilia, as well as personal accounts, maps, press cuttings and documents that trace the origins, workings and evolution of the Festival. The V&A continues to work with Glastonbury Festival to collect and archive material from each Festival.
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Fashioning Glastonbury Festival
For many, Glastonbury Festival is the perfect stage to explore and play with sartorial choices
The Glastonbury Festival People's Playlist
Add a favourite song from your Glastonbury experience to our playlist
Glastonbury Festival stage design
Discover Glastonbury's pioneering approaches to sound, light and video experience
Glastonbury Festival soundscapes
Be transported (back) to the Glastonbury Festival experience with these binaural soundscapes
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Background image: Glastonbury Festival. © Matt Cardy