A Museum Performance

THE ORIGIN

The Association for the

Conservation of Folk Traditions

(1965)

The International Puppet Museum

(1975)

Antonio Pasqualino

The support of the UNESCO Opera

dei Pupi application

Sicilian Opera dei Pupi

The Museum’s international

collection: an intercultural

approach

The other UNESCO’s “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity

Indonesian Wayang Kulit

Cambodian Sbek Thom

Nigerian Gelede masks

Japanese Bunraku

From traditional puppetry to contemporary art ...

Foresta-radice-labirinto

Foresta-radice-labirinto written by Italo

Calvino, directed by Roberto Andò

(1987).

Macchina dell’amore e della morte

Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le Noir

Roncisvalle

Enrico Baj’s puppets made for the shows Le bleu-blanc-

rouge et le Noir and Roncisvalle performed by Massimo

Schuster’s Arc-en-terre

The Rassegna dell’Opera dei Pupi and the Festival di Morgana

“GIUSEPPE LEGGIO”

LYBRARY

THE

MULTIMEDIA

ARCHIVE

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

WORKSHOPS AND MEETINGS WITH PUPPETEERS

The traditional performative codes of the Opera dei pupi

Meetings with puppeteers

Opera dei pupi shows

Studi e materiali per la storia della cultura popolare

Biblioteca di Morgana. Scene, corpi, immagini, figure

Nuovi Quaderni del Circolo Semiologico Siciliano

Suoni&Culture

Mostre

Testi e Atti

Annali del Museo Pasqualino

Magazines:

Antropologia Museale

Etnografie Sonore

Etnografie del contemporaneo

Within the II Meeting of the UNESCO Masterpieces on the Land of Olonkho, held in 2015 in the Russian Federation

(Yakutia - Republic of Sakha) and organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Sakha, the Museum took part in

the Symposium dedicated to intangible heritage of humanity and performed a traditional Opera dei Pupi show.

II Meeting of the UNESCO Masterpieces on the Land of Olonkho,

Russian Federation (Yakutia - Republic of Sakha), 2012

The exhibition “Tradition and Innovation. Italy in China”, held in the

Chinese Popular Republic (Shanghai) was organised in collaboration with La

Triennale di Milano and the Shanghai Group Expo on the occasion of the re-

opening of the Italian EXPO pavilion. The Museum displayed some puppets

from Catania and later, has performed a show with both Sicilian “pupari”

(puppeteers) and Chinese opera singers. A meeting between masterpieces of

humanity.

Exhibition “Tradition and Innovation. Italy in China, Shanghai, 2012

Within a long-term collaboration with the Cricoteka of Kracow - started in 2015 - the Pasqualino’s Museum took part in

various exhibitions, and exchanges of artworks by the Polish artist. The works of the show Machine of Love and Death -

produced by the Pasqualino’s Museum in 1987 - were displayed in the following exhibitions:

Tadeusz Kantor, I’m Goddamn falling, 2015-2016

When will I be little again, Cricoteka, Cracow (Poland), 2016

Schlemmer / Kantor, 2016-2017

In collaboration with Kracow’s Cricoteka (Poland)

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