WATCH: Puppets Can Be Creepy, Especially Day of The Dead Puppets
By Meredith Longo & Samara Lynn
Known for chocolate, pristine ski slopes, and charming clocks, Switzerland is also famous for its puppetry arts.
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An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.
The Puppet Museum recently opened in Lugano, Switzerland. The 38th edition of the annual International Marionette Festival in October and November of this year, is connected to the little museum located in the southern Switzerland region bordering Italy.
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An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.
"This Festival has been created by Michèle and Michel Poletti in 1979 and is still directed by Michel. It’s not the biggest Festival in the world, but one of the few with such a long life," according to an English translation of an online statement about the event.
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An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.
"Puppetry is an ancestral art that continues to shape the evolution of contemporary artistic movements; the puppet honours matter and life, transposes reality, embodies dreams and calls for a thoughtful, imaginative, better world," according to the Association québécoise des marionnettistes, on its website.
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An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.
Pablo Gianinazzi/EPA via Shutterstock
An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.
Pablo Gianinazzi/EPA via Shutterstock
An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.
Pablo Gianinazzi/EPA via Shutterstock
An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.
Pablo Gianinazzi/EPA via Shutterstock
An exhibition piece at the recently opened Puppet Museum in Lugano, Switzerland, July 3, 2020. Lugano will hold the 38th edition of the annual international Marionette Festival in October and November 2020.