Sarah Greenwood Guides Barbie Movie Exhibit Through Oct. 25, 2026
The barbie movie is now part of a longer run at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, where the production design of Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer is on view through Oct. 25, 2026. The display gives the 2023 live-action film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling a physical afterlife in a museum setting, with design work treated like the event itself.
The exhibition debuted at the museum and centers on Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, the designers behind Barbie's world. Visitors see video interviews with the designers and the cast, plus scale models of Barbie's perfect cul-de-sac, Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House, and beach, along with Barbie Land props that include Barbie's problematic milk carton.
Sarah Greenwood's Barbie world
Sarah Greenwood's production design for the 2023 live-action movie gets the clearest spotlight here, which is the point of the whole exercise. The museum is not just displaying finished images; it is showing the parts that made the movie's look readable at scale, from the cul-de-sac model to the beach and Ken's house. For a film that lived as much in construction as in performance, that is the right way to present it.
The museum's location at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles makes the stop easy to fold into a broader visit, and its hours are fixed enough to plan around: Wednesday through Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with Tuesdays closed. That scheduling matters because the Barbie display is not a permanent installation. The date attached to it is Oct. 25, 2026, and that gives visitors a finite window to see the materials in person.
Los Angeles museum hours
Wednesday through Monday access gives the exhibit a wide weekly run, but the Tuesday closure is the only hard stop in the museum's calendar. For anyone trying to see the Barbie materials while they are still on view, the practical move is simple: go on any open day before Oct. 25, 2026, and do not assume the film's most famous design pieces will stay in Los Angeles after that.
Oct. 25, 2026 is the date that frames the whole exhibit, and it leaves the museum with a clear deadline for one of the most recognizable design worlds from the 2023 live-action movie. Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer built a setting that now sits inside a museum alongside the evidence of how it was made, which is exactly the kind of second life production design rarely gets.
