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Rare Barbie Dreamhouses and accessories will also be on show, as will the first Barbie with Down’s Syndrome and the first in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n

The Design Museum exhibition – which was previously on display in London<\/a> – includes sections devoted to Ken and how the Barbie brand has had an impact on fashion, film, creativity and popular culture. <\/p>\n

Danielle Thom, senior curator at the Design Museum, said it will be a “riot of colour” and offer a ” a hit of nostalgia” for attendees.<\/p>\n

She said: “It’s now 67 years since the doll was first introduced in 1959 and the story we’re telling here is fundamentally a design story.<\/p>\n

“But Barbie has, of course, had an outsized cultural impact and cultural presence and so inevitably Barbie has had an impact on design as well as being shaped by it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare Barbie Dreamhouses and accessories will also be on show, as will the first Barbie with Down’s Syndrome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}