News Summary

• The V&A’s newest display Lost Music Venues is both a document of a crucial and depressingly vanishing live music landscape as well as a celebration of its cultural impact.
• Encompassing photography, fashion, posters, graphic design, tickets, set-lists and recreations of music spaces, the venue recreates the visceral look, sound and feel of nightlife.
• The display was primarily inspired by the threat to music venues during and after the Covid-19 pandemic.