A girl of about eight walked out of the elevator in my hotel in Montreal, holding a brochure advertising “the largest in the world” Barbie museum apparently located just around the corner. I immediately decided to go there, because I wanted to bring a souvenir for my daughter. I find it slightly ironic that a Barbie museum found its way to the top of my list of places to visit. This is another example of surprising (to myself) things I became interested in because of my daughter. The others are ballet, violin and piano, to name a few major ones in our life at the moment. It turned out that you can’t actually purchase anything at the Barbie Expo, but the concept of a permanent exhibit of one-of-a-kind Barbie dolls dressed by the famous designers, whose clothes one can actually buy in the same shopping centre is quite cool. I was also lucky to be there right before the closing time, so the place was not crowded. Still, there were quite a few people, both children and adults checking out the displays. So it’s not just me. Good.
Oh, and by the way – there was also also a figurine of Daniel Craig as 007, which means that Barbie is not only a model, dancer, race car driver, rock star, princess, … , astronaut, doctor, etc., as the exhibit clearly showed, but also a Bond girl.
