Icons: Playboy, Hugh Hefner & Marilyn Monroe

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The exhibition showcases a stunning collection of artifacts from the early life of the legendary magazine founder to the Playboy era’s heyday, direct from Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Headquarters and Mansion, and personal property consisting of film wardrobe, photographs, documents and ephemera from the incandescent life of Marilyn Monroe, provokes a gaze at the two icon’s life and times particularly in the 1950s and early 1960s during the height of their fame and influence on American pop culture, as well as on each other’s careers.