Grateful Dead Museum Truckin’ to Venetian Las Vegas

The Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip will host an exhibit celebrating the legacy of the Grateful Dead.

The Dead Forever Experience will open one day ahead of the Dead & Company’s headlining summer residency at the Sphere on May 15 in the same two-floor, 22,000-square-foot space where the Venetian’s U2 Museum debuted ahead of that band’s Sphere residency last September.

The attraction will include an art display from founding Dead drummer Mickey Hart, a gallery of more than 100 photos of the band, and “Le Petit Mur De Son.” That’s a 1:4 scale, functional recreation of the infamous Wall of Sound, a massive sound system originally designed by audio engineer Owsley Stanley for the Grateful Dead’s 1974 concerts.

The exhibition will also feature a merch store, natch, where bargains are likely to be harder to find than an original 1967 Grateful Dead T-shirt designed by Allan “Gut” Terk. (Google it if you don’t already know.)

The Dead Forever Experience will be free to the public and open five days a week for the duration of the Dead & Company’s residency, which runs May 16 through July 13.

VIP packages are available at deadforever.vibee.com.