📍 Museu da Marioneta
Address: Rua da Esperanca 146, 1200-660 Lisboa
Duration of visit: 1h or so
Ticket price: 5 euros

Coming to the booming Marionette theater in Portugal, the Marionette Museum is a must! Where does the story begin?

Yeah, Damon Albarn said in an interview that the Lisbon Puppet Museum was worth a visit, and I guess it had something to do with the opera project he was working on in Paris.

So fans, since I arrived in Lisbon, I must follow the footsteps of my idol and report for duty. Let alone puppets, each region has its own unique culture. Portuguese puppets are a local feature.

A very interesting museum, small and delicate, no long commentary, the most simple and intuitive puppet display, covering European and Asian (even Chinese shadow puppets) puppets, and some stop-motion animation production process.

Once inside, there is the netherworld BGM with death lighting, empty and quiet to the horror, especially when every puppet is looking at you, bringing you a bit of cool in the Lisbon summer. My friend and I were the only visitors, along with a puppet troupe and a few people doing CPD classes.


What attracts me most about this puppet museum is that the special exhibition shows the production process of many stop-motion animation films, documentaries and scenes of construction. In the process of watching these documentaries, I can feel the difficulty of stop-motion animation shooting, and also understand the production process of stop-motion animation.

The permanent exhibition also displays puppets from all over the world and from all periods, in different forms and with the national characteristics of each country. At the same time, there are many video materials of puppet shows in different countries, which can help visitors better understand different puppet cultures.

ps. The Puppet Museum can also experience your own stop-motion animation, be sure to try! It's very interesting; At the same time, there are many interactive small games, you can experience to see ~

Puppet Museum is very suitable for learning illustration, pure art, stage art direction friends to collect inspiration, if you have time to experience!

Don't look at the small area of the museum, a variety of video and audio display is very diverse, there is a Chinese water puppet show, children riding buffalo puppet show, impressive. Interactive facilities are also plentiful. For example, it is to color the puppet sketch, you can choose different puppets from all over the world, and you can play for a long time.

The last part is the puppet show shooting studio, you can shoot your own puppet show and experience the production process of puppet animation. It was the most fun part. We had a lot of fun.

The puppet museum is located in a monastery, it looks very big outside, in fact, it is very small inside, and it can be seen in less than ten minutes. So if you are not very interested or not on the way, there is no need to come, but if you live nearby and have breakfast in the cafe next to you, it is suitable to come in for a circle.

Suitable for children also suitable for curious adults, of course, there are puppet-phobic friends don't come, I am very fond of bjd! Unfortunately, there is almost nothing around the museum, and it would be great to sell all kinds of puppets!