Museu da Marioneta
The Museu da Marioneta, or Museu das Marionetas de Lisboa, brings puppetry out of the shadows of theatre by treating it as a history you can study. Since November 2001, it has been based in the Convent of Bernardas, a building founded in 1653 by permission of King John IV, and enclosed as a cloister in 1655. That convent was almost completely destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, with reconstruction beginning in 1758 under Giacomo Azzolini, before the community returned to religious use in 1786 and stayed there until 1834, when orders were dissolved. Inside, the museum presents puppetry’s evolution worldwide, with special emphasis on Portuguese puppets, and it showcases different types of puppets and the approaches they make possible. Its collection has grown through contributions from authors, collectors, and puppeteers transferring their estates. …
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