Back to the Garden: Woodstock Museum Opens Today

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  06.02.08 | 4:14 PM ET

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From time to time in high school, I used to throw my dad’s old vinyl copy of the Woodstock album (complete with crowd chants and warnings about the brown acid) on the record player, crank the volume, sit back and try to pretend that I, too, was at Max Yasgur’s farm (pictured) on a wet August weekend in 1969. Seems I’m not the only one keen to re-create the event. The Museum at Bethel Woods opens today on the site of the original concert in upstate New York, and it sounds groovy.

According to the AP, it not only offers some of the sights and sounds of Woodstock, but also devotes plenty of time to explaining the show’s cultural context.

“It’s sort of a three-act play,” said museum spokesman Michael Egan. “We tell you the story of the ‘60s, the story of Woodstock and the story of the legacy of Woodstock.”

Of course, there are no plans to include a rock ‘n’ roll roller coaster inspired by the Hendrix version of The Star-Spangled Banner, but that’s more than okay.

Tags: Museums, Music, Pop Culture Travel, Woodstock, North America, United States, New York, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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