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The Glastonbury Festival Archive
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
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Glastonbury Festival poster, 1995. -
Print, 'Something like that'. -
Festival-goers in fancy dress at the Chapel of Love and Loathing (part of the Lost Vagueness field). -
Glastonbury, 1970s. -
A festival-goer defeated by the mud, 1990s. -
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1986. -
The first Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, 1971. -
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1970. -
Glastonbury Festival poster, 1983. -
Pyramid Stage sign. -
Arcadia at Glastonbury Festival. -
Jean and Michael Eavis cheer from the Pyramid Stage, 1992. -
Pyramid Stage architectural drawings. -
Glastonbury crowd. -
Banners at Glastonbury Festival, 2014.
Features
The history of Glastonbury Festival
"When I set out on this crazy, hippy trip, little did I know that this roller coaster would run".
Performing Glastonbury
Explore the history of performance at the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world
Mapping Glastonbury
Explore the objects, sights, sounds and memories of 50 years of Glastonbury Festival
A creative community: interviews with Glastonbury Festival co-creators
Meet the people behind some of the Festival's most iconic spaces
Photographing Glastonbury Festival
Interviews with the five photographers who have captured Glastonbury through every era
Fashioning Glastonbury Festival
For many, Glastonbury Festival is the perfect stage to explore and play with sartorial choices
Glastonbury Festival stage design
Discover Glastonbury's pioneering approaches to sound, light and video experience
The Glastonbury Festival People's Playlist
Add a favourite song from your Glastonbury experience to our playlist
Glastonbury Festival soundscapes
Be transported (back) to the Glastonbury Festival experience with these binaural soundscapes
Background image: Glastonbury Festival. © Matt Cardy