Pink Floyd announce new exhibit with inflatable pig over London Museum

Pink Floyd announce new exhibit with inflatable pig over London Museum

Legendary psych rockers Pink Floyd will be protagonist of a big exhibit called “The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains”, set to take place in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum from May to October 2017.

To announce the exhibit, an inflatable pig was flown over London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, with the same stunt used to shoot the cover of their 1977 album "Animals" - where a pig is seen soaring over Battersea Power Station.

The “immersive, multi-sensory and theatrical” new show, which marks 50 years since Pink Floyd’s debut single, will include 350 items of band ephemera, such as instruments, posters, handwritten lyrics, artwork, and more. They’ll be housed within an exhibit featuring a laser light show and unearthed concert footage.

V&A director Martin Roth commented:

The V&A is perfectly placed to exhibit the work of a band that is as recognisable for its unique visual imagery as for its music. Pink Floyd is an impressive and enduring British design story of creative success. Alongside creating extraordinary music, they have for over five decades been pioneers in uniting sound and vision, from their earliest 1960s performances with experimental light shows, through their spectacular stadium rock shows, to their consistently iconic album covers. The exhibition will locate them within the history of performance, design and musical production by presenting and complementing the material from Pink Floyd's own archive with the V&A's unrivalled collections in architecture, design, graphics and literature.