Puppetry Museums
Museum of Anthropology (MOA), University of British Columbia (UBC)
Curated by Dr. Nicola Levell and unique in scope, this award winning online exhibition consists of over 230 hand-crafted puppets, from 13 different countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The puppets ranged from a spectacular 12-foot tall Coast Salish rod puppet called Meh (with a mechanism requiring five puppeteers to bring him to life) to a collection of delicate 5-inch high string puppets from China (toys belonging to an 800-year old tradition), and hundreds of more characters besides.
Puppet Power Self Guided Puppetry Tour at the Center for Puppetry Arts – Atlanta, GA
Whether you are a puppetry aficionado, a puppeteer yourself, or completely new to the topic, the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Museum strives to help you form a deeper connection to the art form’s broad history and cultural contexts. From the ancient to the contemporary, puppets and the stories of their puppeteers, productions, artists, and techniques fill the Museum. The Museum features two signature galleries and an annual calendar of rotating special exhibitions.
Puppet Power Self Guided Puppetry Tour at the The Puppet Collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization
In Canada, although puppet theatre is not rooted in a long-established tradition, it is, nonetheless, increasingly recognized as an important form of artistic expression. It’s history, however, remains relatively unknown. The development of a collection such as the Museum’s enables us to begin a true exploration of this history of puppetry. What stories were told … which types of puppet were used … to whom were they presented? As we delve into the history of puppetry, we also begin to discover various aspects of a society: it’s mythology, it’s literature, it’s entertainment and it’s visual arts.
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For more Puppet Museums around the world check out the listing on the International UNIMA website