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...
- 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.
- 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.
- Preservation of folk puppets and folk
theatre forms by making opportunities for creative work available
to folk artists.
- Continue to develop and implement professional
training programs for puppeteers all over Pakistan.
- 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.
- Creating opportunities for research work on puppets
and teaching for students.
- Develop opportunities for foreign groups to visit Pakistan for development
work, research, publication and teaching for children on puppets in Pakistan.
- 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).
- Facilitate in developing more documentation on various aspects of the
puppetry of Pakistan.
- Facilitate in finding sources to organize more frequent
National Puppet Festivals.
- Promote the art of puppetry through organization of conferences,
seminars, lectures,
workshops and meetings at the museum with
local, national and international puppeteers.
- Work towards making Lahore one of the great puppets centers of the
world