A Polaroid portrait of Lady Gaga, creative director of Polaroid, was unveiled during a press conference at the MIT Museum in Cambridge in 2010. Polaroid announced a donation of 10,000 archive items to the MIT Museum during a press event.

Prior to the event Lady Gaga was photographed by a classic 20x24 Polaroid camera—the only one existing in the world and housed in a studio in New York City. She left after and skipped the press conference.