Museu da Marioneta — Attraction in Lisbon

There are marionettes here from all across the world, and they do a really great job of including a number of cultural perspectives in exploring the art of marionettes. The downside is that they don't really have much of a partnership with any marionette theatres, where they could leverage that relationship in recounting specific stories about the usage of certain marionettes in a specific show. They do have an interactive stop-motion center, where you're able to move the marionettes and take photos and everything, to see your small cinematic creation! It was a really effective way to finish the tour, by opening up the relationship between puppetry, theatre, and...

Small museum inserted in a very old monastery building in Lisbon. The puppet collection though small, is incredible in its portrayal of different origins, traditions and handling of puppetry. Workshops for adults and kids are available throughout the year.

Accessing the museum itself is not easy, since there are no parking spots in the building. The main entrance has a very long stairway, though special access for low mobility can be requested.

Once inside it is very walkable and bathrooms are wide and clean.

Objects are identified in PT, ENG and FR and there are various puppets and animation interfaces meant to be held and played...

A very well designed small museum. At the time of my visit there was a temporary exhibition named « made in China » that contained puppets of theatre from far east, also including paper shadow puppets. The permanent exhibition includes puppets from around the world and a section specifically for Portuguese puppetry industry. There were some active interaction sites which includes choosing some videos to display and also one that You could actually play with some glove puppet. Overall it was a nice experience and I strongly...