"For the 19th century Paris petit-bourgeoisie, working class heroes in English suburbs, the black population of since the 1950s, the guitar has been part of their desire for emancipation and dreams of freedom," the exhibition notes say.
Starting with footage of careening air guitarists, the show from the tiny ukulele to the giant Mexican "guitarron.
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Thunderous licks from Dick Dale, "the King of Surf Guitar" and Spanish classical guitar music over the speakers.
Most curiously, there is also an inflatable blue guitar designed in 1952 by the French inventors, the Baschet brothers, which, perhaps unsurprisingly, failed to take off as an idea.
Likely to interest the kind of person guitar shops once Heaven," the exhibition also contains an impressive number of guitars from some of rock's greatest Axemen.
Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd are all there, although their owners put other guitars to.
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