The Museum Of Puppetry

Aims & Objectives

The museum of puppetry is not only going to provide nationwide exposure to puppetry, but will also aid in educational programs based around puppets. The museum plans to...

  1. Develop education and recreational programs designed to meet the needs of children in Pakistan. Included in this are the intellectually gifted as well as the mentally retarded, and especially the culturally and economically disadvantaged children, who have been born into at environment lacking books, playing space, and a creative environment.
  2. Develop special programs and educational packages for schools, work with children with educational objectives and hold workshops for school teachers to learn simple manipulation of puppets as a tool for education for small children.
  3. Preservation of folk puppets and folk theatre forms by making opportunities for creative work available to folk artists.
  4. Continue to develop and implement professional training programs for puppeteers all over Pakistan.
  5. Produce documentary films on puppets and the art of puppetry of Pakistan. Our first film will be launched soon which are dedicated to the puppet festivals 1992 and 1994, titled World of Puppetry.
  6. Creating opportunities for research work on puppets and teaching for students.
  7. Develop opportunities for foreign groups to visit Pakistan for development work, research, publication and teaching for children on puppets in Pakistan.
  8. Creating a regular Newsletter of UNIMA Pakistan. (the newsletter has been launched with its two publications dedicated to the puppet festivals held in 1992 and 1994).
  9. Facilitate in developing more documentation on various aspects of the puppetry of Pakistan.
  10. Facilitate in finding sources to organize more frequent National Puppet Festivals.
  11. Promote the art of puppetry through organization of conferences, seminars, lectures, workshops and meetings at the museum with local, national and international puppeteers.
  12. Work towards making Lahore one of the great puppets centers of the world