The Glastonbury Festival Archive

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Glastonbury 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.

Collection Highlights

Glastonbury Festival poster, 1995.
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1995.
Print, 'Something like that'.
Print, 'Something like that'.
Festival-goers in fancy dress at the Chapel of Love and Loathing
Festival-goers in fancy dress at the Chapel of Love and Loathing (part of the Lost Vagueness field).
Glastonbury, 1970s.
Glastonbury, 1970s.
A festival-goer defeated by the mud
A festival-goer defeated by the mud, 1990s.
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1986.
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1986.
The first Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, 1971.
The first Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, 1971.
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1970.
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1970.
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1983.
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1983.
Pyramid Stage sign.
Pyramid Stage sign.
Arcadia at Glastonbury Festival
Arcadia at Glastonbury Festival.
Jean and Michael Eavis cheer from the Pyramid Stage, 1992.
Jean and Michael Eavis cheer from the Pyramid Stage, 1992.
Pyramid Stage architectural drawings.
Pyramid Stage architectural drawings.
Glastonbury crowd.
Glastonbury crowd.
Banners at Glastonbury Festival, 2014.
Banners at Glastonbury Festival, 2014.
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Background image: Glastonbury Festival. © Matt Cardy