It didn’t hit me until I stood in the middle of the Global Collection and saw all the creativity around me that The Worlds of Puppetry Museum showcases how cultures around the world and throughout time have expressed themselves through puppetry to tell their stories and share their history. Puppetry can be traced back hundreds, and even thousands of years in some regions. And I think they have puppets from every country and region in the world: Italy, Central Europe, Indonesia, Myanmar, Turkey, China, Taiwan, Egypt, Korea, Japan and Mali. And in a variety of materials: wood, fiberglass, leather, paper, felt. I also saw puppets I had never seen before: shadow puppets from India, puppets that “walk on water” from Vietnam, and almost life-size puppets from Japan.
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I hadn’t thought about that movie in years, but seeing the Mystics, Skeksis, Garthim and Jen reminded me of what a fantastic movie that was and how it was all created with puppetry. At the time I visited was also the opening of the Dark Crystal exhibit. Then I wandered over into the Global Collection and saw marionettes, which reminded me of all the puppet shows I’ve seen growing up. There are puppets from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 (that show still cracks me up!). I remember watching Gumby on Sunday mornings before church. I turned the corner and saw Gumby and The Corpse Bride characters showcasing stop motion puppetry.
I then remembered that my sister Vicki and I had Ernie and Cookie Monster hand puppets when we were little that I had totally forgotten about until I was walking through the Jim Henson Collection (strangely, I don’t remember having a Bert). And we all know Kermit and the fabulous Miss Piggy from The Muppets.
Of course, there’s the classic Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street (sorry, Big Bird, Oscar is still my favorite). Roaming through their amazing collection, I kept seeing puppets that reminded me of various times in my life. But after visiting and talking to Jill Malool, Director of the museum, I realized I’ve been a closet puppet person for years. Confession: I am a secret puppet person (I just didn’t know it) I certainly didn’t think of myself as a puppet person before I visited the Worlds of Puppetry Museum in Atlanta, Georgia.
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