Woodstock museum will stay open

Festival-goers celebrated Woodstock's 25th anniversary

A museum dedicated to the famous hippie music festival Woodstock will open despite losing $1 million (£485,000) in government funding.

The Museum at Bethel Woods is due to open next year in the upstate New York town where organisers put on the three-day event in 1969.

The museum is being built on top of the hill near where the stage was located.

Thousands of people visit the site each year, where a stone monument is currently the only marker.

'Peace and love'

Politicians voted to strip the $1 million funding sought by New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer for the museum.

Bethel Woods has already received $15 million (£7.3m) in state funding.

The Woodstock festival was billed as "three days of peace and love".

Aside from the drugs, mud and rain, there were career-defining performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and a myriad of others.