The Design Museum’s Barbie: The Exhibition opens on July 5 and features a doll that has been into space.
A Barbie that has been into space will go on public display for the first time as part of the upcoming Design Museum exhibition to mark the 65th anniversary of the world-famous doll brand.
In April 2022, Cristoforetti returned to the ISS for her second mission, Minerva, and during the mission she carried out her first spacewalk, becoming the first European woman to do so, according to the ESA. A silver all-in-one “Miss Astronaut” costume, which is described as “Barbie’s first depiction as an astronaut” and which came on the market for the time in 1965, will be part of the exhibition, on loan from the Mattel archives in Los Angeles.
“It’s one of the ones that was made by Mattel that was available to buy widely. But it is specifically the doll that Samantha herself took into space. So the Barbie we are showing has actually orbited the Earth in the International Space Station.” Barbie: The Exhibition, which opens on July 5 and runs through to February 23 2025, will further seek to tell the story of the brand and how it has impacted culture throughout the decades.
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