Radstock Museum is joining forces with seven top photographers, Peasedown Youth Centre and a local radio station to mount an exhibition about the festival to beat all festivals.
Spirit of Glastonbury will open at the museum on Friday, September 7th and will run until November 30th, giving people a chance to relive great moments in Glastonbury Festival's forty-year history.
Creating something of the atmosphere of an event, which attracts tens of thousands of music fans, covers several acres of land and stages legendary performances is a near-impossible task.
But the museum has done its best, by inviting the Glastonbury Seven, photographers Brian Walker, Ian Sumner, Anna Barclay, Ann Cook, Steve Roberts, Jason Bryant and Matt Cardy, who have covered the exhibition at different stages in its history, to exhibit the cream of their work.
Also on show will be a Glastonbury Tent, created by young people at Peasedown St John Youth Centre. They have really entered into the spirit of the event by designing banners and backdrops for their exhibit – and are collecting hippy clothes for people to try on. Face painting and a 'design your Glastonbury outfit' competition are also being organised.
Dom Chambers, who manages Somer Valley FM, has been involved in the festival for many years, working as a photographer and stage manager. He hopes to contribute posters and and some of the journals he has kept of the event.
The museum is linking with Bath's Little Theatre Cinema in the build-up to the exhibition. The public will get a chance to see some of the classic photographic images from the Radstock exhibition at a Glastonbury nostalgia night at the cinema, on Monday, September 3rd.
The iconic pictures will help capture the mood of the festival decades at this themed evening. Martin Jennings-Wright, General Manager of the Little Theatre, said: "We are absolutely delighted that Radstock Museum is letting us use some of its material, featuring in what promises to be the definitive Glastonbury retrospective."
The Radstock Museum exhibition will be open Tuesdays to Fridays and Sundays, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturdays, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., from September 7th to November 30th. For more information, visit the museum website: http://www.radstockmuseum.co.uk">www.radstockmuseum.co.uk