And, of course, since 1969 Jim Henson’s Sesame Street puppet characters have taught children the world over their numbers, letters, and more. Shari Lewis, a ventriloquist and puppeteer, featured her characters Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, Charlie Horse, and others on a number of TV series that entertained children from the 1950s to the 1990s. Howdy shared his TV audiences with Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Charlie McCarthy led the way for Howdy Doody, a little puppet with his very own television series in the 1950s. In the 20th century, television spread the popularity of puppets among children and adults and produced some beloved American icons. Eventually puppet theater included secular stories and comedies, and puppetry became a popular form of rowdy entertainment at carnivals, fairs, and market gatherings.Įuropeans brought puppets to the New World, and the playful figures entertained Americans in street theaters and later in vaudeville houses and on public stages across the country. In Europe, the Christian church used puppets to present morality plays. Early Chinese and Japanese puppeteers fashioned miniature figures for religious ceremonies and the telling of folktales and epic stories of gods and heroes. Plato and Aristotle wrote of puppets, and ancient puppeteers presented the Iliad and the Odyssey using figures made of clay and ivory. ![]() Because the toy form appears long ago in nearly every culture in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, no one really knows where it began. The material legacy of other early puppet theatres is now mostly housed in the Museum of Puppetry, but a lot still resides in various personal collections, regional, specialised museums and archives.Puppets may have originated in the Egypt of the pharaohs or in India nearly 6,000 years ago. The collection was set-up as a part of Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and while it is now incorporated into the museum, it is in a way also its predecessor. In 1990, Milan Klemenčič's daughter donated his legacy to the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre Museum Collection. After WWII, in 1948, the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre was established. By that time, puppetry was present to such an extent that in 1933, Ljubljana hosted the international puppet association UNIMA congress. Between the wars, the puppet theatres were greatly popularised and multiplied by the Sokol movement. Slovenia's tradition of recorded and preserved puppet theatre originates in the early years of the 20th century, when the main protagonist was the painter Milan Klemenčič (1875–1957), who established his own puppet theatre. With this in mind, one of the primary objectives of the museum is to create the conditions for the proper care and long-term preservation of Slovene puppetry culture heritage. The establishment of the museum presents a pioneering work for Slovene puppet arts, as the material history of Slovene puppetry has never before been systematically researched, not to mention restored and exhibited. ![]() In addition, to symbolically emphasize the connection between participating institutions, the Puppet Path, which leads from Krekov trg along the funicular railway to both the exhibition space and the Castle Theatre, was established. For that purpose the Permanent Exhibition entitled Images of Slovenian Puppetry Art, 1910-1990 and a small theatre performing historical puppet shows have been set at the Ljubljana Castle in 2015. The Museum aims to study Slovenian puppetry, which dates back over a century, and care for the collections, while encouraging the widest possible access to the puppets. Niko Kuret, Jože Pengov and other collections, all an important part of Slovenian cultural heritage. The Museum owns around 6000 material artefacts (set designs, drawings, posters, audio & video media, archival materials, etc.), including more than 3000 puppets from the legacies of Ljubljana Puppet Theatre archive, Milan Klemenčič, dr. The Museum of Puppetry as part of the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre houses the national collection of puppetry, which is being constantly updated.
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