Bata Shoe Museum Gets All Dolled Up with New Exhibition Exploring the World of Dolls
The Bata Shoe Museum is excited to announce the opening of its newest exhibition, All Dolled Up: Fashioning Cultural Expectations which explores how the world of
Bata Shoe Museum Gets All Dolled Up with New Exhibition Exploring the World of Dolls
The Bata Shoe Museum is excited to announce the opening of its newest exhibition, All Dolled Up: Fashioning Cultural Expectations which explores how the world of dolls and their miniature shoes reflect the larger world.
Bata Shoe Museum Gets All Dolled Up with New Exhibition Exploring the World of Dolls
Not limited to child’s play, dolls have been used since time immemorial around the world for a wide range of purposes. Their removable clothes, including footwear, bring delight to people due to their diminutive size, and many of these accessories have become collectable in their own right. Playing with dolls, however, has a greater impact than simply offering a distraction.
Dolls have historically promoted complex cultural ideas about gender, body image and social status, and many have been used to promote fashion consumption. Today, doll manufacturers in the West are making efforts to be more inclusive, featuring dolls with disabilities,…
gender fluid dolls and dolls that promote equality. The popularity of outfitting avatars in virtual games is also dramatically expanding the world of doll play. “The museum has a number of extraordinary dolls and miniature shoes in its collection,” says Elizabeth Semmelhack, Director and Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum.
“I am very excited that we have been able to do an exhibition that focuses not only on these miniature marvels but also on the cultural work dolls have done for centuries.” Michael Jordan doll and miniature sneakers on display in “All Dolled Up: Fashioning Cultural Expectations”.
Design Collective, the exhibition is remarkably reminiscent of the interior of a doll house and features over 30 artefacts that address a variety of topics, including gendered expectations for girls and boys, the lack of diversity and inclusion in mass-produced dolls and how that has been challenged, shoemaking in miniature, character creation in virtual games and more…
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