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.
The Design Museum exhibition – which was previously on display in London – includes sections devoted to Ken and how the Barbie brand has had an impact on fashion, film, creativity and popular culture.
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.
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.
“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.”
