Lady GaGa’s Meat Dress Goes On Display

It was dried out by a taxidermist before being sent to a museum…

Lady GaGa’s infamous raw meat dress has gone on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The dress, which she wore at last year’s MTV Video Music Awards, was preserved by a taxidermist to make it suitable for display. The process took several months; the dress was dried out in a meat locker, then had to be painted to keep it looking fresh after it developed a “dark beef-jerky” appearance.

It sits in the Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power exhibition, which runs until February 2012. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland also houses GaGa’s childhood piano and the silver Armani orbit gown she wore to the Grammy Awards.

The dress will be in a chilled cabinet to keep it from stinking, Hall of Fame’s Jim Henke told MTV News. "It's going to be in a case and we are putting some canisters in there to control the humidity, and then we have this other canister that soaks up the glutens," he explained. "But it's in a sealed case and we have the gels to control the environment in there."

The Judas singer has previously said she was thrilled the dress could be preserved, and added that she hoped to one day house all her dresses in an exhibition. "I keep everything and dream of having a museum of all my clothes. I have an archive house for all my clothes," she said on The Graham Norton Show.

"[The dress has] been jerked. It stank. It was fabulous. I never want to talk to anyone at those big celebrity functions because I feel awkward, and it was great – because it stunk, I didn't have to talk to anyone." 

Lady GaGa has just premiered the video for Edge Of Glory, which features legendary saxophone player Clarence Clemons, best known (until now) as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

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