First Pink Floyd Retrospective to Mix Sight and Sound at London's V&A

The power of Pink Floyd's music was matched only by the band's iconic imagery, from a pig soaring high over Battersea Power Station to the savage cartoons of the satirist Gerald Scarfe.

So it's fitting that London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), home to some of the world's greatest designs, will host the band's first major international retrospective, celebrating 50 years since Pink Floyd released its first single.

"The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains," including a sonic experience by Sennheiser, will celebrate the band's work in composition, staging, design, film, music technology, graphic design and photography. It will feature more than 350 objects and artefacts including never-before-seen material, presented alongside works from the V&A's collections of art, design, architecture and performance.

The museum said that the exhibition will celebrate Pink Floyd's place in history as Britain's cultural landscape changed from the 1960s up to the present day.

Martin Roth, director of the V&A, said: "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 unrivaled collections in architecture, design, graphics and literature."

The show opens on May 13, 2017 for 20 weeks; tickets are available now from the V&A website.