![]() A Performance Museum Description of the project / practice / program Finally, in 2017, the Museum has received the ICOM Italy award as 'Museum of the Year 2017' because of its engagement in the attraction of new audiences. In addition, in 2015, the Association was enrolled in the Anagrafe Nazionale delle Ricerche of the Ministero delI'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (ID code 61993JYI). In recent years, the Museum has also acquired the puppets Enrico Baj created for two other shows by Massimo Schuster: Mahabharata and Roncevaux.īy virtue of its recognized competence in the field of research and study of the intangible heritage, the Association was accredited as a non-governmental organization to act in an advisory capacity to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage (registration number NGO-90316). The collection also includes important contemporary works of art, namely those created for shows produced by the Museum: a set design and puppets drew by Renato Guttuso for the show Foresta-radice-labirinto (Forest, Root, Labyrinth 1987) written by Italo Calvino and directed by Roberto Andò (1987) the puppets and theatrical machines made by the Polish artist and director Tadeusz Kantor for the show Macchina dell'amore e della morte (The Machine of Love and Death 1987) the puppets made by Enrico Baj for the show Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le Noir performed by the Arc-en-terre of Massimo Schuster. Among these, it houses the largest and most complete collection of pupi from Palermo, Catania and Naples as well as objects used in the other puppet traditions which are proclaimed UNESCO's Materpieces of Humanity: not only the opera dei pupi, but also the Japanese Ningyo Johruri Bunraku, the Indonesian Wayang Kulit, the Cambodian Sbek Thom and the Nigerian Gelede. 5,000 items: marionettes, marottes, hand puppets, shadow puppets, theatrical machines and playbills from all around the world. The organization of the annual international Festival di Morgana and all the other initiatives allow the expansion of the collection that today includes ab. In May 2001, UNESCO proclaimed the Opera dei pupi a 'Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity'. Its promotional strategy is based on a transcultural and multidisciplinary approach that helps the exchange between Sicilian puppeteers, puppeteers from other countries and contemporary artists.Ĭlear evidence of our engagement in the preservation and promotion of folk traditions, with particular reference to the Opera dei pupi, can be found in the decision to write the UNESCO application of Sicilian Opera dei pupi, its promotion and support. ![]() ![]() In order to safeguard this important form of local cultural heritage, and help the exchange and relation between old masters and new audiences, the Museum project combines museographical activities and theatrical initiatives 'also through the creation of an active theatrical company' in collaboration with all Sicilian puppeteers it promotes and organizes a high number and variety of events 'educational activities, workshops, conferences/seminars, festivals', manages a the Gisueppe Leggio Library and a multimedia archive dialogues with prestigious organizations and works as a mediator with local, inter/national entities. In particular, the Museum foundation followed a deep crisis of the local traditional practices, the Opera dei pupi that is Sicilian puppet theatre provoked by a deep social and economic transformation. As stated in the Association's Statute, since the very beginning the Museum's focus has been the preservation of Sicilian folk traditions, the promotion and encouragement of the study of the related issues. Intangible cultural heritage is the core of the mission of the Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum of Palermo and the Association for the Conservation of Folk Traditions, which is the non-profit organization (established in 1965) that founded the Museum in 1975. International Puppetry museum Antonio Pasqualino
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