
The Museum's puppet collection, already home to the John Conway fonds, became the repository of one of the most important puppetry collections in the country. The impressive OPA collection of more than 1,600 puppets and accessories was amassed between 19, largely through gifts from puppeteers. PuppetARTs museum presents puppets from around the world as well as puppets related to the history of puppetry in Detroit. The Library wishes to thank The Ontario Puppetry Association for the donation of an important collection of books, periodicals and archival materials. The transfer of the Ontario Puppetry Association (OPA) collection and its archival fonds in 1994 greatly enhanced the Museum's existing puppet collection. This bibliography presents documentary resources on puppetry that are available at the Canadian Museum of Civilization’s Library.

to whom were they presented? As we delve into the history of puppetry, we also begin to discover various aspects of a society: its mythology, its literature, its entertainment and its visual arts. The development of a collection such as the Museum's thus enables us to begin a true exploration of this history of puppetry. Long perceived as a minor art, puppet theatre has rarely been studied and its heritage remains fragile, in part because of the ephemeral nature of its productions. Its history, however, remains relatively unknown. Thinkwell designed and produced the new Worlds of Puppetry Museum inside the Center for Puppetry Arts, creating a unique, fun and interactive arts center. 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.

International Puppetry Virtual Museum Take a virtual tour through the collections of the International Puppetry Museum in Pasadena, California.

It is named after Frank Ballard, a Dramatic Arts professor. The Arab Puppet Theatre Museum is a project of the Arab Puppet Theatre Foundation that aims to locate and preserve what we can of the rich tradition of Arab puppetry. The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry This site, based at the University of Connecticut, is Connecticut’s state museum for puppetry. In all the world's cultures, puppetry exists in a multitude of forms, reaches a wide range of audiences, and remains highly diversified. With every passing year, more and more of this material heritage is lost as a result of inadequate conservation and storage capacity, looting, political conflict, and neglect. While it may be one of puppetry's favourite haunts, the ancient art of puppetry has a far greater reach. In the West, puppet theatre has often been taken over by and limited to childhood.
