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Northwest Puppet Center–International Museum of Puppetry. Alan Cook (1932–2019) assembled one of the largest and most significant collections of puppets. In 1999, Cook and Jacqueline Marks and friends made plans for the future of the puppets and founded the Conservatory of Puppet Arts, later renamed the International Museum of Puppetry (IPM). The IPM hosts 14 online exhibits.
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In 2010, Cook began discussions with Dmitri Carter about moving the Cook/Marks collection from California to the Northwest Puppet Center in Seattle.
from Museum of Primitive Art, which closed in 1976. The donor, Nelson Rockefeller, believed that works by artists from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas are equal in every respect to the Met’s collection of Western art. A search reveals 200 digital images of puppets and puppet-themed art. There are 25 puppets, including eight currently on exhibit: four from Africa (Bamana and Ibibio), two from Sumatra, and two Native American puppets, and online are eight more figures from Africa as well as a large collection of drawings by Mexican puppeteer Lola Cueto. https://www.
metmuseum.org/art/collection/search#!?q=puppets National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution, New York City branch) in 1989 took ownership of the collection assembled by George Gustav Heye (1874–1957) and exhibited at the Museum of the American Indian from 1922 to 1989. The Heye collection includes a few rare Native American puppets.
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Puppeteers of America, working together with many collectors and UNIMA-USA, put together the exhibit Puppets: Arts and Entertainment, which toured to 11 museums. On the catalog cover: the Duke of Naples by Peter Schumann and Mr. Punch by Daniel Meader. Photo courtesy of Puppeteers of America
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Between 2011 and 2014, the bulk of the IPM collection was transferred to the Northwest Puppet Center for storage and display. The book Alan Cook: A Puppet Collector’s Odyssey (2017) has numerous color photographs of puppets in the Cook/Marks collection. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City, opened to the public in 1976. Part of the collection came from the Cooper Union Museum of Art and Decoration, which closed in1963. In 1967, the collection, including many 19th century French shadow puppets, was transferred to the Cooper Hewitt branch of the Smithsonian. Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry (BIMP), Storrs, rescued a puppetry collection formerly at Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn. Andrew Drummond (1929– 2005), a puppet-loving professor of theater at Kingsborough, collected puppets for display in cases near his classroom. In 1974, he acquired a collection of puppets from Marjorie Batchelder McPharlin. Drummond later collected Charles Ludlum’s Punch and Judy puppets. When Drummond retired, the college no longer wanted the puppet collection and it was acquired by BIMP in 1994. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, opened the Michael C. Rockefeller wing in 1982 with a collection transferred
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Gretz Beer advertising puppet by Frank and Elizabeth Haines. Photo courtesy of Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Industry exhibited puppets from the Kungsholm Miniature Grand Opera from 1977 to 2002. Rose Grossinger, owner of the 300-puppet collection, donated it to the Swedish American Museum in Chicago in 2017, and it was last exhibited in 2018. Meredith Bixby Puppet Exhibit, Saline, Michigan. Meredith Bixby’s (1909–2002) collection of puppets was in the care of the Saline Chamber of Commerce, exhibited from 1997 until 2008, when funding for the rented space disappeared. The puppets were packed away until recent preservation was started at the University of Michigan. https://
news.umich.edu/u-m-alumna-brings-new-life- to-meredith-bixbys-famous-marionettes-uses- new-x-ray-photo-technique/ Boston Public Library’s Dwiggins marionette collection preserves the works of W.A. Dwiggins (1880–1956) and was donated to the library in 1967. The collection was proudly exhibited until the rare book collection was scheduled for a
three-year renovation. Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum at Columbia University, New York City, was founded by Brander Matthews (1852–1929). This collection of puppets from Europe and Asia could be viewed from 1911 to 1971 in Low Library. The collection (now rarely seen) is in the care of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Butler Library; however, digital images are online, including 391 puppets sorted by country. Link to the USA section.
https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/ realia/puppets_unitedstates/gallery1 Kansas University Museum of Anthropology (Spooner Museum), Lawrence, Kansas, was open to the public from 1972 to 2002. The museum included more than 100 puppets donated by Hazelle Rollins. It closed to the public in 2002. Pioneer Craft House, Salt Lake City, Utah, founded by Mrs. Glenn John Beeley (1893–1981), hosted the National Puppetry Festival in 1969. Pioneer Craft House has more than 400 puppets collected by Mr. Beeley. In recent years, the Craft House has been struggling financially. Puppet House Theater, Stony Creek, Connecticut, was a theater and museum open from 1963 to around 2003. The museum had a large collection of Sicilian marionettes in the styles of both Catania and Palermo. Current status of the puppets is unknown.
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