Barbie mit Fisch

[My first Barbie.]

My friend Fresca sent this image my way. Thanks, Fresca. The source is a museum exhibition, Busy Girl — Barbie macht Karriere, opening tomorrow at the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum Emden, in Emden, Germany. The museum website describes a 1960 Barbie “im mustergültigen Designeroutfit und mit Skizzenmappe unter dem Arm” [in an exemplary designer outfit and with a sketchbook under her arm]. The museum has substituted a fish for the sketchbook. And thus Barbie has made eine berufliche Veränderung [a career change].

Why a fish? Emden is a port city, this year’s host for German Fisheries Day. I want to believe that’s a sardine under Barbie’s arm, but it could be a herring. Sardines are smaller members of the herring family.

There’s a book that must have some connection to this exhibition. I will ask Paul Drake to have his operative in Emden look into it.

Related reading
All OCA sardine posts (Pinboard)