Martin Roth, who announced his resignation this week as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum just before opening the exhibition on the revolutionary late 1960s, was once a hippie himself—complete with bongo drums. We can exclusively publish a photo of him aged 15, at a 1970 jam session in the Black Forest, not far from his family’s home in Stuttgart. Saying that “I’ve not changed all that much in 45 years”, Roth now looks back at some of the ideals of that psychedelic era which he believes are still very relevant today, but have sometimes been forgotten. He cites these as as tolerance, solidarity and anti-racism. Roth will be leaving the museum in about two months, but the show, You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970, runs until 26 February 2017. It is then likely to move on to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts next summer.
