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Glastonbury teams up with the V&A to launch new digital archive
Glastonbury Festival has teamed up with the V&A for an online archive to celebrate the history of the iconic event.The London museum has hosted archive material from the festival since first joining forces in 2014, including a wide array of “posters, stage designs, costumes, interviews, films and other memorabilia”.Now, the new initiative will see the items being made available online for the first time, alongside a selection of contributions from the public to mark Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary.It is currently in the early stages of development, but will prospectively launch in 2021.V&A senior curator Kate Bailey said: “It will allow us to increase public, digital access to the festival’s performance history, and to create research
