00:00David Bowie on tour is one of the first occasions when objects from the David Bowie archive have a chance,
00:09have the opportunity to go national.
00:11So it's a hundred highlights from the David Bowie collection.
00:15David Bowie on tour will see a number of items which have never been on public display go on show
00:21at locations across the country,
00:23including Bristol Museum and Art Gallery from June to September 2028.
00:28It's perfect for fans who really get an emotional connection to David Bowie's work.
00:35So it's brilliant that all generations, you know, have the opportunity to see the objects.
00:40I think for people it's about authenticity.
00:43So this goes far beyond the kind of digital experience or online experience of seeing Bowie's works, you know, for
00:50the first time.
00:51People absolutely love the emotional connection to Bowie's practice and to his creative genius as an artist.
00:58We're particularly excited to be collaborating initially with five partners across the UK with more to follow.
01:06So we are working with Bristol, with Hull, with Blackpool, with Bowie's Museum and with V&A Dundee as our
01:15first stop.
01:17And it's particularly important because all of these towns and cities have an amazing musical heritage and history.
01:24So for those fans and those places where Bowie himself performed, this is a fantastic experience for people to be
01:31able to see Bowie's work.
01:33The items reveal how much of a creative force Bowie was, that he was driving the vision behind all of
01:41his projects from concept to final product.
01:44They reveal him to be a visionary and innovator and also a voracious collector.
01:50Bowie, because he sort of cycled through so many personas in his career, he still remains sort of quite enigmatic
01:57and unearthly.
01:58But when you're seeing these objects up close, you're getting closer to understanding him as an artist, as a creative,
02:06but also as a real person, as someone who tried and failed and experimented.
02:13And you don't get that through a digital experience, you need to see these items and feel like you're close
02:19to that genius.
02:20The advantage as well of seeing these objects in person is that so many of them haven't been on display
02:26before.
02:27So we have sketches and lyrics from Blackstar from the next day relating to the music videos that he worked
02:35on.
02:35We've also got his saxophone that he was given as a child, to-do lists where he's looking at plays,
02:43books that he wanted to see or read, designs, even personal items like his passport, which he had in the
02:5280s, which does give a sort of insight into the personal nature of Bowie's collecting as well as his professional.
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