What's left of the 1960s?

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? The exhibition "You say you want a Revolution" in London's Victora and Albert Museum goes far beyond that. The 1960s generation wanted change, freedom and peace. Starting September 10, visitors can explore the mentality of the era via music, design, technology and art.

The exhibition is named after the song by The Beatles - the band that indisputably revolutionized pop music in the 1960s. The cover of the famous 1967 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album is on show in London. It was one of the earliest concept albums and was a landmark in the history of pop music.

The 1966 film "Blow Up" shifts between reality and supposed reality. A photographer believes he's captured a murder on film and tries to prove it, but he can't. The film is set in the wild 1960s London with its parties and music. The band Yardbirds destroys guitars at its concert and drugs are commonplace in the city's dark clubs.

The London club UFO was known for its psychodelic posters and light shows - and also for launching top bands. It only existed from 1966-1967. Pink Floyd, Procol Harum and Arthur Brown all performed there. Brown's crazy nude gigs featuring burning helmets were the talk of the town. His single "Fire" and debut album "The Crazy World of Arthur Brown" were an international success.

This "Djinn Chair" made an appearance in Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi film "2001: A Space Odyssey" from 1969. Designed by Olivier Mourgu, it became a style icon. Also known as an easy chair, the sleek look was typical of the 1960s. Chilling instead of sitting uncomfortably - that corresponded with the revolutionary zeitgeist of the era.

In 1970, the ad agency Cramer Saatchi England caused a stir with this poster. It aimed to make men more aware of birth control and not simply delegate the responsibility to women. The bottom line was: Use a condom! The sexual revolution was just beginning.

A commune from California called Merry Pranksters was at the forefront of the hippie movement. It put on events and parties where drugs flowed in huge quantities - including LSD, which was still legal at the time. Their party series was called Acid Test in a play on the drug's nickname. The poster above was designed by star poster artist Wes Wilson.

Flowers instead of weapons! Poet Alan Ginsberg used flowers as a symbol for passive resistance against violence. In the late 1960s, demonstrators would stick flowers into police officers' pistols in protest against the Vietnam War. The hippies made use of the symbol, wearing flowers in their hair and on their clothes - becoming known as flower children.

Woodstock 1969 was strongly associated with the decade's peace movement. While the US was fighting in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of people were celebrating a music festival with a message: Make love, not war. The festival was later seen as both a musical highlight, but also as the end of the hippie movement. The subculture evolved into pop culture.