The Center for Puppetry Arts offers several Sensory Sundays throughout the year. If kids are tired and need to go home, take a puppet-making kit to-go at the ticket counter. However, parents can assist younger children. The session lasts around 20 minutes and is tailored to kids ages 4 and up. Center for Puppetry Arts: Education Puppet WorkshopsĪfter each kid-friendly performance, visitors can head upstairs to create their own puppets. After the show, the puppeteers come out to greet the audience and demonstrate puppet techniques.Ĭreate a Puppet Workshop allows kids to create their own puppets after each performance. With engaging visual effects, catchy music, and lighting, the performances keep everyone entertained and last just under an hour. Upcoming shows include Penguin in My Pocket and Charlotte's Webb. The center performs over a dozen different performances each year including the Christmas classic, Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Photo of Stellaluna by Chris HuntĬenter for Puppetry Arts: Live Puppet Performances The center hosts live performances throughout the year, geared for all ages. A favorite activity for kids in this section is to perform with real puppets in front of the television camera. Other exhibits include characters from The Muppet Movie, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. With the theme song playing above, enter a mock-up of Sesame Street with Big Bird, Bert & Ernie, and of course Kermit the Frog. Look at Henson’s hand-drawn sketches on the bulletin board and get up close to see Dog (the mechanical Muppet from The Storyteller) in the center of the room. You’ll walk through Henson’s office before entering the workroom, where shelves line the walls with boxes of fabric scraps, feathers, foam rolls, and other materials for making Muppets. This gallery begins with an overview of Henson’s early creations, such as Omar and Rowlf the Dog, while clips from his shows and television commercials play on video monitors. In fact, Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson cut the ribbon at the center’s opening in 1978 and performed at its 10-year anniversary. Muppet fans rejoice! The Center for Puppetry Arts holds the largest collection of Muppets in the world thanks to the donation of over 500 items from The Jim Henson Foundation. Kids can operate shadow puppets and see the video detailing how puppets are created. A video next to the stage shows a water puppet performance in action. These rod puppets glide across the water’s surface and are operated by hidden puppeteers (standing in the water) with long wooden poles. Standing behind the puppet theater, they’ll operate the puppet’s body while seeing the activity on the stage through plexiglass.Īnother cool exhibit is the Vietnamese water puppets. Kids can try out the marionettes featuring two knights and a dragon. Kids get a chance to operate a shadow puppet. Some of the museum’s rarest puppets are the Bunraku puppets from Japan, which require three people to operate. Visitors will see Punch and Judy from England, Guignol from France, and the Corpse Bride stop-motion puppet from the United States. Global Galleryĭid you know that puppet performances began thousands of years ago and catered primarily to adults? In this gallery, kids and adults learn about puppetry throughout the ages, as well as customs and different puppet forms from five continents. The Worlds of Puppetry Museum features the Global Gallery, the Jim Henson Collection, and a special-exhibit space. The center opened in 1978 and subsequently doubled in size after a major expansion in 2015. Located in Midtown Atlanta, the Center for Puppetry Arts is one of the few puppet museums in the country. Center for Puppetry Arts: Worlds of Puppetry Museum
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