PUPPETRY EXHIBITS AND MUSEUMS

Exhibit of Nick Barone's puppets at the Puppeteers of America Pacific Southwest 1996 Regional Festival

A special thank you to Puppeteers of America Vice President Steve Abrams for providing information about many of the museums on this page.

Austria National Theatre Museum Josefplatz #1 A-1014 Wien (Vienna Austria) Richard Teschner Collection at the Austrian Theatre Museum - Vienna

Belgium Musee de la Vie Wallone Liege

Canada Musée Canadien des Civilisations (Canadian Museum of Civilization) Fils, Sans Fils et Fin Doigti - Une Nouvelle Collection de Marionnettes au Musée Strings, Springs and Finger Things - a New Puppet Collection at the Museum

Czech Republic International Institue of Marionette Art - Prague Muzeum Loutkarskych Kultur (International Marionette Museum) Chrudim Bretislavova 75 Phone: o455/42-047

France Musée de l'Automate, Souillac, France - Souillac, Lot Collection of automatons and mechanical toys from the 19th and 20th centuries. Most come from the Roullet-Decamps workshops. Musee National des Arts et Traditions Populaires 6 du Mahatma-Gandhi (Bois de Boulogne) 75116 Paris, France Tel.: 722-07-41 Theatre du Petit Miroir's Taiwanese Puppetry Exhibition and History Issy-Les-Moulneaux

Germany Munchen Stadtmuseum (Museum of the City of Munich) Puppentheatresammlung der Stadt Munchen St Jakobs Platz 1 80331 Munchen (Munich) Phone: (089) 233-2482 This is the biggest permanent collection and exhibit of puppets in the world - over 5,000.

Greece Sparhareion Museum of Shadow Theatre 22 Argonafton St 15125 Maroussi Athens Phone: 802-7185

Indonesia Wayang Museum Fatahillah Sq Jalan Pintu Besar Utar 27 Jakarta

Italy Teatro del Drago Permanent Museum of the Monticelli Collection - Ravenna

Japan Jusaburo Tsujimura Museum - Ningyocho, Nihonbashi, Chuo Ward, Tokyo. "Ningyocho", which translates literally as the "city of dolls", is a place where the atmosphere of old Tokyo still remains.

Mexico Museo Nacional del Titere (National Puppet Museum) Parque Juareez No 15 C.P. 90500 Huamantla 90500 Tlaxcala, Mexico Phone: (52-247) 2-10-33 Rafael Coronel Museum Calle Chevano Zacatecas, Mexico

Netherlands Puppetry Museum - Vorchten, Gelderland

Russia State Central Academic Puppet Theatre 3 Sadovaya-Samotechnaya Moscow Phone: 299-3310

Scotland Scottish Mask and Puppet Theatre There is a permanent display of 100's of puppets from around the world, old and new, which you are welcome to come and see. 8-10 Balcarres Avenue, Kelvindale, Glasgow, G12 0QF. Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre - Scottish Mask & Puppet Centre, Scotland’s primary venue, gallery, training centre and resource in this field has compiled a touring exhibition of masks and puppets.

Switzerland Le Musée Suisse de la Marionnette - Fribourg

United Kingdom Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood Cambridge Heath Road London E2 Phone: (0181)-980-2415 This is a branch of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (currently closed for restoration) Horniman Museum 100 London Road Forest Hill. London S.E. 23 3PQ Phone: (0181)-699-1872 They have an excellent set of notes on each type of traditional puppet. Polka Children's Theatre 240 The Broadway Wimbledon, London England SW19 1SB01 Phone: (0181)-543-4888 Exhibits the collection of Waldo & Muriel Lanchester and more. Theatre Museum (branch of Victoria & Albert Museum) Russell St Covent Garden London WC2 Phone: (0171) ˆ836-7891

USA The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at The University of Connecticut Boston Public Library Rare Book Collection (Dwiggins Marionettes) Boston, MA Bread & Puppet Theatre Museum Box 153 Route 122 Glover, VT 05839 Phone: 802-525-3031 Carnegie Museum of Art: Christian Jankowski's Puppet Conference Forum Gallery of the Carnegie Museum of Art Christian Jankowski, whose slightly mischievous works have appeared in the Berlin Biennale (1999) and the Whitney Biennial (2002) has made a new video work for Carnegie Museum of Art. The piece, titled Puppet Conference, is a video record of interactions that ostensibly take place at a "symposium," where famous puppets have gathered to discuss the vocation, celebrity, and private lives of puppets. Filmed at Carnegie Museum of Art, this conference, brings together a panel that includes a number of internationally known television puppets, including Grover from Sesame Street, Fozzie Bear from the Muppet Show, and Mallory Lewis and Lamb Chop, familiar to generations of viewers since her first appearance with Shari Lewis on Captain Kangaroo in 1957. The panel also includes Mr. Shelby from The Magic Woods, a new Pittsburgh-based children's environmental education program. Center for Puppetry Arts Museum, Atlanta, Georgia COPA - The Conservatory of Puppetry Arts (COPA) is dedicated to promote, to preserve and to advance the international art of puppetry. Bil Baird Puppet Collection, at the Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa Kukla, Fran, and Ollie from the Chicago Historical Society Online Exhibition Detroit Institute of the Arts: Punch's Progress, a Century of American Puppetry Detroit, Michigan Open Hand Theater Traveling International Mask and Puppet Museum, Syracuse, New York Pittsburgh Children's Museum 1 Landmark Square Pittsburgh, PA Margo Lovelace collection of puppets, also a Mr. Rogers Exhibit Vent Haven Museum - Fort Mitchell, Kentucky Whitman College Sheehan Gallery Bunraku exhibition -- Walla Walla, Washington - a catalog is also available for purchase

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