You know it’s been a long and winding road when the pivotal cultural event of a generation earns its own museum.

This summer, the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts launched a museum that celebrates the story of the ’60s and the historic three-day Woodstock Festival. Located on the actual site of the watershed 1969 music and cultural event, the 6,728-square-foot stone, wood and glass museum is situated on 2,000 rolling acres of open space and is meant to both preserve the festival’s physical footprint and cement its place in our cultural history.

Click here for photos from the new Woodstock Museum in Bethel Woods.

In three galleries, the museum strives to put the Woodstock Festival into context and position it within a decade that saw radical change in the greater culture. The galleries hold artifacts both original and recreated from the era (including a psychedelic school bus), 20 films, five interactive productions, murals and hundreds of photographs. Oral histories on the era from voices as diverse as Wavy Gravy and Edwin Meese are part of the museum, which endeavors to be both accessible and academic.

The Museum is part of the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, which is an outdoor performing arts center with 15,000 seats. Throughout the summer and fall, the center is host to performances as diverse as the New York Philharmonic to Lynyrd Skynyrd. On July 19th, Tony Bennett will appear in concert, and on August 13th, Maroon 5 and Counting Crows will appear.