Teatro de Marionetas do Porto, Porto

Here, the Museu das Marionetas do Porto opened on the third of February, twenty twelve. Its displays gather characters that gave the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto its living cast across twenty-five years of activity. This museum carries out a long-held ambition of João Paulo Seara Cardoso, who founded the theatre and lived from nineteen fifty-six to twenty ten.

The collection keeps the company’s characters together after their work on stage, allowing the theatre’s creative history to remain present beyond any single production. As you explore, the figures offer a direct encounter with the imaginative world built by this Porto theatre company. Rather than explaining puppetry in general, the museum preserves the particular characters through which this troupe told its stories and created its stage life.