Woodstock Museum®
Woodstock Museum®
Collects, Preserves, and Makes History
Woodstock Museum preserves the living legacy of Woodstock and the 1960s—peace, creativity, cultural change, environmental imagination, and new ways of thinking about the future and sustainable living. As the museum approaches its 40th year, it is also building toward a larger role as a destination-scale cultural and educational institution.
More than a festival story
The museum connects Woodstock’s past to enduring questions about community, creativity, justice, sustainability, and how people can learn to live peacefully.
What Woodstock Museum®
Carries Forward
Woodstock Museum preserves more than an event. It preserves a way of thinking about culture, change, innovation, and the possibility of a more conscious future.
History
Preserving the broader story of Woodstock, including the music, people, movements, and cultural imagination that shaped the era.
Innovation
Honoring the experimental spirit that inspired new ways of living, building, conserving energy, and rethinking daily life.
Peace
Advancing the continuing conversation around peace, dialogue, mediation, and non-violent ways of relating to one another.
Innovation Is Part of
the Woodstock Spirit
Woodstock Museum® preserves more than a cultural memory. It also carries forward the story of people who tried to build a better world in practical ways—through peace, creativity, environmental thinking, and new models for everyday life.
Among the museum’s early board connections was a pioneer associated with what was described as the first home solar installation in the country to sell electricity back to the electric company. That breakthrough reflected the same larger spirit that shaped Woodstock: the belief that society could be reimagined, and that new ideas could be tested in real life.
This is one reason Woodstock Museum® matters now. Its history is not just about what happened in the past, but about ideas that still feel urgent in the present—and still point toward the future.
About Woodstock Museum
Learn about the founders, board, leadership, and values that shaped Woodstock Museum over nearly four decades of cultural and historical work.
The Vision Ahead
Discover the plans for a larger museum campus, expanded year-round programming, and the long-term concept of Woodstock Universitytm.
Why Peace Still Matters
Woodstock Museum sees peace not as a slogan from the past, but as a continuing human challenge. The legacy of Woodstock remains relevant because the questions it raised—about war, justice, communication, and how people live together—have never gone away.
Peace has never gone out of style—and it deserves a solution.