( CNN ) -- The infamous meat dress Lady Gaga was grilled for wearing at the MTV Video Music Awards last year will be unveiled Thursday as the main course in a sizzling new display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . It will join the `` Women Who Rock : Vision , Passion , Power '' exhibit at the hall in Cleveland , Ohio . The dress , once made of juicy cuts of raw Argentinean beef , was treated and preserved by a taxidermist over a number of weeks . `` The dress was kept in a meat locker until the treatment was ready to begin , '' said a statement from the hall . `` It was then placed in a vat of chemicals and , while still pliable , was put on a body form and allowed to dry . '' To keep the dress from looking like a large collection of beef jerky , it was painted to look like fresh meat . Lady Gaga wore the dress when she accepted the award for Best Video of the Year for `` Bad Romance '' at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 12 , 2010 . It was a collaboration by designers Franc Fernandez and Nichola Formichetti . Gaga , who was campaigning at the time in support of repelling `` Do n't Ask , Do n't Tell , '' told Ellen DeGeneres that the dress represents equality , saying `` Equality is the prime rib of America . '' `` If we do n't stand up for what we believe in and if we do n't fight for our rights , pretty soon we 're going to have as much rights as the meat on our own bones . And , I am not a piece of meat . '' CNN 's KJ Matthews contributed to this report .
Gaga 's new dress will be unveiled at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Thursday . It will be part of the hall 's ` ` Women Who Rock : Vision , Passion , Power '' exhibit . She wore the dress during last year 's MTV Video Music Awards ceremony .