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.

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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The history of Glastonbury Festival 

"When I set out on this crazy, hippy trip, little did I know that this roller coaster would run".

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    Performing Glastonbury

    Explore the history of performance at the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world
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    Mapping Glastonbury

    Explore the objects, sights, sounds and memories of 50 years of Glastonbury Festival
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    A creative community: interviews with Glastonbury Festival co-creators

    Meet the people behind some of the Festival's most iconic spaces

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    Photographing Glastonbury Festival

    Interviews with the five photographers who have captured Glastonbury through every era
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    Fashioning Glastonbury Festival

    For many, Glastonbury Festival is the perfect stage to explore and play with sartorial choices
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    Glastonbury Festival stage design

    Discover Glastonbury's pioneering approaches to sound, light and video experience
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    The Glastonbury Festival People's Playlist

    Add a favourite song from your Glastonbury experience to our playlist
  8. Listen

    Glastonbury Festival soundscapes

    Be transported (back) to the Glastonbury Festival experience with these binaural soundscapes

Collection highlights

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  1. Glastonbury Festival poster, 1995.
    Glastonbury Festival poster, 1995.
  2. Print, 'Something like that'.
    Print, 'Something like that'.
  3. 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).
  4. Glastonbury, 1970s.
    Glastonbury, 1970s.
  5. A festival-goer defeated by the mud
    A festival-goer defeated by the mud, 1990s.
  6. Glastonbury Festival poster, 1986.
    Glastonbury Festival poster, 1986.
  7. The first Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, 1971.
    The first Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival, 1971.
  8. Glastonbury Festival poster, 1970.
    Glastonbury Festival poster, 1970.
  9. Glastonbury Festival poster, 1983.
    Glastonbury Festival poster, 1983.
  10. Pyramid Stage sign.
    Pyramid Stage sign.
  11. Arcadia at Glastonbury Festival
    Arcadia at Glastonbury Festival.
  12. Jean and Michael Eavis cheer from the Pyramid Stage, 1992.
    Jean and Michael Eavis cheer from the Pyramid Stage, 1992.
  13. Pyramid Stage architectural drawings.
    Pyramid Stage architectural drawings.
  14. Glastonbury crowd.
    Glastonbury crowd.
  15. Banners at Glastonbury Festival, 2014.
    Banners at Glastonbury Festival, 2014.

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Glastonbury Festival. © Matt Cardy