Visitors will find about 75 Henson pieces on display and can also explore a reincarnation of the office where Henson illustrated, wrote and animated and an interactive creature shop.įrom Fozzie Bear to Fraggles, there’s no way a visitor won’t see one of their favorite characters. “Every time you come back, you’ll see something new,” Kelsey Fritz, the Center's exhibitions director, tells. While not every piece will be displayed at once, the museum plans to rotate the collection. After his death, his family donated over 500 Henson artifacts and the Center decided to expand its Atlanta facility to house them all. Henson was a strong supporter of the Center for Puppetry Arts during his lifetime. “He was not only a genius for puppetry, but for film and television innovation.” One of the collection’s primary objectives, he says, is to celebrate Henson’s talents across the spectrum - as a puppeteer, artist, and forward thinker. “Jim was a genius,” Vincent Anthony, the founder and executive director of the Center for Puppetry Arts, tells. On November 14, the highly anticipated $14 million, 7,500 square foot expansion of the Center for Puppetry Arts will have its grand opening - and the “world’s most comprehensive collection of Jim Henson puppets and artifacts” will highlight Henson’s life and artistic legacy. It’s time to meet the Muppets at Atlanta’s new Worlds of Puppetry Museum. The museum is commended for its strong commitment to make a collection of national relevance accessible to young visitors by encompassing both a multi-layered presentation, which shows the collection's richness, the urgency of preservation as well as its great potential for learning and new ideas in using a collection for cultural learning by providing free-choice, multisensory and extraordinary hands-on experiences targeted at different age-spans.It’s time to play the music. The judges said that this multi-layered exhibition succeeds in immersing visitors with different backgrounds in puppet theatre and its techniques. There are thematic stations and three interactive wooden stages – for string, hand and shadow puppets, all accompanied by experiential content on interactive screens. There is a special focus on programmes for children and families, with guided tours accompanied by interactive workshops to learn the techniques of puppetry and to try out puppetry skills. In its educational programme the museum encourages different target groups, ranging from the ages of four to 13, to explore, listen and discuss the displays in a playful way, to remember the puppet plays that left an impression on them, and to experiment with their own puppet shows. The museum also screens television puppet shows, runs workshops, presents interactive puppet stages and actively engages in developing the field of puppetry conservation and restoration know-how. The permanent exhibition, entitled ‘Images of Slovenian Puppetry Art, 1910-1990’, houses a vast collection of material artefacts including artistic and technical designs for puppet shows, puppets and scenic elements, as well as stages and written documents. One of the primary objectives was to create the conditions for the proper care and long-term preservation of major pieces from almost 300 puppet shows. It is housed in a recently restored part of the castle. The museum is a joint project of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Ljubljana Castle, supported by the Municipality of Ljubljana. The jury accompanied the special jury award with the following words: The shortlist included 12 museums from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, Great Britain, Slovenia, and Singapore. The first award was given to the centre for art education at the National Gallery in Singapore, while the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre received the special jury award. On Saturday, the annual conference of the Network of European Museum Organisations was held in Valletta where European Museum Academy and Hands On! Association presented the Children in Museums award to museums employing creative approaches and excellence in introducing cultural heritage to children.
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