David Bowie will have a museum in London with his entire personal archive

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The Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum has secured the donation of

's personal archive , a vast collection of 80,000 objects that the pioneering and influential artist kept until his death in January 2016.

Notebooks and manuscripts, covers and records, photomontages, negatives and videos, designs and clothing, musical instruments and records edited over six decades of innovative creation will be kept in their own space, The David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing

, dedicated to the study of performing arts.

The center will open to the public in 2025, according to the current plans of the British institution.

Bowie's heirs have entrusted the V&A with custody of the

London performer's

The museum organized a major retrospective show,

, with selected material from the same collection, which jumped from the rooms of its headquarters in the Kensington neighborhood to the cinema screens in an international tour starting in 2013. The valuable pieces and Memories will now find a permanent home at the V&A East Storehouse, which is being built in the Olympic quarter of Stratford, northeast of the British capital.

Self-portrait with the pose on the cover of 'Heroes'.The David Bowie Archive

An economic contribution of 10 million pounds (about 13 million euros) from the Warner Music group and the family foundation of the Russian millionaire and philanthropist Leonard Blavatnik will make it possible to set up the study center and investigate the jewels from the collection of Bowie.

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Among the most precious objects are the handwritten lyrics of

(1975),

(1977) and

(1980), key songs in a 25-disc legacy from a musician who reinvented himself and led the world scene decade after decade. .

The wardrobe of the mythical character

tour

and the coat of the Union Jack (the British flag) that Bowie made by hand with the couturier Alexander McQueen for the cover of

, the LP of 1997, will be available for inspection by fans, researchers, scholars, performers and creators in general.

V&A Director Tristram Hunt paid tribute to the career and legacy of the extraordinary composer, actor and author of the second half of the 20th century.

"Bowie's radical innovations in music, theater, film, fashion and style - from Berlin to Tokyo to London -

and inspire creators from Janelle Monáe, Lady Gaga to Tilda Swinton and Raf Simons. ", declared the historian and former deputy when celebrating and thanking the transfer of custody of the collection and the contribution of donors.

David Bowie as Thin White Duke, in 1976.John Robert Rowlands

A David Bowie State spokesman stressed the importance of "sharing the artist's work with the public in a way that" has not been possible before.

The archive reveals the process in the creation of songs, albums and tour settings, discovers artistic concerns and incomplete projects and accompanies the versatile performer and obsessed collector throughout his stylistic evolution, from the sixties until his farewell with

.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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