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A new Olivia Rodrigo exhibit is opening at the Grammy Museum this week, and the pop star herself will be there tomorrow

Get an exclusive look at the props, packaging and passion behind the pop star's visually stunning video for "The Cure."

Gerrish Lopez
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Gerrish Lopez
Time Out Contributor, US
Olivia Rodrigo performing at the 2025 Rock Werchter Festival
Photograph: Shutterstock | Olivia Rodrigo performing at the 2025 Rock Werchter Festival
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A cardboard operating room, stop-motion animatronics and felted human hearts await on a surgeon's table. It sounds like a fever dream, but it’s actually a display of the painstaking craft behind Olivia Rodrigo's visually striking lead single off her latest album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love. Beginning Wednesday, September 2, fans can step inside the music video for "The Cure" at the Grammy Museum’s newest exhibit, "Olivia Rodrigo: the cure unraveled" (running through February 22, 2027).

If you were captivated by the surreal visuals for "The Cure," prepare to view the artistry up close. Directed by Cat Solen and Jaime Gerin, the video drops Rodrigo into a handcrafted hospital where she operates on felted human hearts inside the "OR". Production designer Liam Moore constructed the world almost entirely by hand out of cardboard, paint, miniatures and stop-motion magic—and now those exact sets are on display.

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Highlights of the exhibit include outfits, props and plenty of photo ops. See up close the actual nurse costume Rodrigo wore on set. Take a look at the miniature "OR" set and the animatronic, beating felt hearts featured in the video. View original storyboards, handwritten process notes and hand-stitched album packaging artwork. Take pics in the interactive sets and browse unpublished set photography.

Olivia Rodrigo in "The Cure" music video
Photograph: Courtesy Geffen RecordsOlivia Rodrigo in "The Cure" music video

The exhibition kicks off with a sold-out launch event on September 1, featuring a live performance and a conversation with Rodrigo herself—who was last seen leading this weekend's viral Daisy Chain Fields music festivalabout You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love to benefit the museum's music education programs. (Missed out on snagging tickets for the talk? Keep your eye on that waitlist.)

If you can't make it during launch week, don't worry—this is a two-part experience. An expanded version of the exhibit featuring never-before-seen career artifacts lands in early fall 2026, offering even more reasons to make the trip to the Grammy Museum.

What: "Olivia Rodrigo: the cure" unraveled
When: September 2, 2026 through February 22, 2027
Where: Grammy Museum, Los Angeles
Tickets: $22.50, free for members

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