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V&A launches Glastonbury online celebration

The famous festival was cancelled this year because of the pandemic.
The famous festival was cancelled this year because of the pandemic. The famous festival was cancelled this year because of the pandemic.

The Victoria & Albert Museum has launched an online Glastonbury celebration to help “fill your festival void”.

The famous festival – due to take place this weekend – was cancelled because of the pandemic on what was meant to be a celebration of its 50th year.

Home to the nation’s Glastonbury Archive, the V&A is now hosting a seven-day “online celebration of all things Glastonbury”.

It wants people to send in written memories from the festival while a soundscape will include recordings from 2015 to explore a day in the life of Glastonbury.

The archive includes posters, programmes, designs, interviews, film, photographs, backstage passes and other memorabilia.

Glastonbury’s co-organiser Emily Eavis said: “The festival is witness to decades of creative, social and political change, and your memories are an integral part of this story.”

Written memories can be sent to glastonbury@vam.ac.uk