Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead Exhibition Planned

The show will feature memorabilia including guitars, handwritten notes and Mickey Hart's custom-painted drum kit.

The exhibition, due to open in April (12), will be launched with a special event featuring a performance by The Mickey Hart Band.

Museum vice president Jim Henke, says, "In a 30-year career, this group wrote their own rules and created a community unlike any band before or since."

The group officially disbanded in 1995 following the death of frontman Jerry Garcia, but the other members have since toured with various different line-ups.