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Ping Pong is sad today.
Nora Chikhale, one of the founding members of The Olde World Puppet Theatre passed away
November 19th, 2008.

We've prepared a short tribute to her
and placed it on YouTube.
You can view it here.

OR, CLICK HERE to see the individual pictures

What would a museum be without Exhibits? We now have three of them up and ready. To view them, click on the orange marble.
The first is an exhibit that we mounted in May, 2006. It was part of Tears of Joy Theatre's PuppetFest 2006.
The second is the Catalog of an exhibit that we did at Cannon Beach, Oregon awhile back.
The third is an exhibit we mounted in Portland, Oregon to celebrate the opening of Tears of Joy Theatre's Reluctant Dragon.

Two pages of the Wonderful World of Puppets are now open. Click on the blue marble and you'll be whisked off to those pages.

Here you will find a long list of links to other puppet pages for you to enjoy - Click on the red marble. This now lists links to over 50 countries around the world. Please check my Golden Rules (see below) before exploring this section.

Here you'll find projects to download and work on, including a rod and shadow puppet of my friend, Chelsey the Baby Dragon, a page to color that has an important message, the Three Billy Goats Ruff and the characters from Robin Hood for you to color and assemble.
Our latest addition is a project featuring our Northwest Puppet Mural for you to cut out and assemble. Have fun!!!

Here you will find pictures of puppets from the Olde World Puppet Theatre, located in Portland, Oregon, USA. If you look closely, you will even find more pictures of me!!!

Here you will also find our newest feature - The Puppet Workshop. Over the past few years, The Olde World Puppet Theatre has been building a lot of puppets for other organizations to use in their shows. These pages show you how we do it, from start to finish. We'll share our successes (along with any failures) and try to give you a feeling of how the projects get done.

Click on the golden marble to see some of the rules covering your visit here at my museum. Also some advice for making your visit more fun.

Sterling, the Court Jester
catching 40 winks

Hello, Hello, Hello!!!, I'm Ping Pong, the Panda, and I'm your tour guide here at the museum.

I'm glad you could join us here at the Puppet Museum. I've got lots of things to show you and for you to do, as we explore the Wonderful World of Puppets.

Building the museum is a huge job, and we keep adding pages to it all the time. Every time you come back, you'll see more and more pages up and running.

Just click on the big marbles to the left to go to the pages of your choice.

Check out my section, Ping Pong's Puppet Workshop, by clicking on the Brown Marble. Steven M. Overton & Marty Richmond, the owners of the Olde World Puppet Theatre have photographed and described almost four years of puppet building and other projects.

We've got over 100 pages of construction up so far, and you can follow our progress by clicking on the Brown marble.

Our latest puppet build is a walkaround River Otter costume for the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District.
Sophie, as they call her, is being used in their get-children-to-read program.
To jump right there to see her, click here. There are ten pages describing her construction.

We've also added a project of our Northwest wildlife puppet mural to build. Click on the Green Marble.

We've opened our first exhibit page, so click on the Orange marble to walk through that wing.

The Red Marble will link you to other puppet sites around the globe.

Have fun here at the Puppet Museum.

Thank you for visiting us, and I hope you'll bookmark this page so that you can come back again and again.

Your Friend

Ping Pong the Panda

Prince Aaron

The Queen of Hearts

Sidney the Snake

Charlemagne the Dragon
(Miniature)

Enchantra the Witch