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March 8, 2025 - July 31, 2025
In 2025, the Barry Art Museum will open a brand-new exhibit of the world’s most famous doll: Barbie. Focusing on her history as a design icon, this show will investigate the people and processes behind Barbie and her wardrobe. Few fashion dolls have had as significant an impact on the world as Barbie.
To explore this rich design history in-depth, the Barry Art Museum is partnering with Bradley Justice Yarbough, a leading expert on Barbie. Yarbough writes for Doll News and Antique Doll Collector magazines and has appeared on The Doll Podcast with host Louisa Maxwell. The objects in this exhibition delve into Barbie’s design history, while the exhibition layout will further explore Barbie’s brand by invoking her modern aesthetic. Working with ODU’s theater department and local artists, the Museum will bring Barbie’s distinctive style to life through an homage to the interiors of her various dreamhouses. This will be an immersive installation that charts Barbie’s changing style across the decades.
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