Since staring in 2017 at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture, Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI)'s travailing exhibit "The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited" is finally making a stop on the east coast.
The 10th stop on the tour will take it to the Maryland Center for History and Culture near where Henson was a student at the University of Maryland.
The exhibit will run May 26 through December 2023 which is the longest the exhibit has stayed at any of it's stops thus far.
Maryland Center for History and Culture 5,000-square-foot, Muppet-filled multimedia exhibition is full of hundreds of objects, including puppets, character sketches, storyboards, scripts, costumes, and film and television clips.
About the exhibit:
The Jim Henson Exhibition: Imagination Unlimited explores Jim Henson’s groundbreaking work for film and television and his transformative impact on popular culture. This comprehensive exhibition reveals how Henson and his team of builders, performers, and writers brought to life the enduringly popular worlds of The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and much more. The exhibition features a broad range of artifacts related to Henson’s unparalleled career, including more than 20 puppets, character sketches, storyboards, scripts, photographs, film and television clips, behind-the-scenes footage, iconic costumes, and interactive experiences that allow visitors to try their hand at puppeteering on camera and designing a puppet.
Bringing Henson Home to Maryland
With his gently subversive humor, restless curiosity, and innovative approach to puppetry, Henson built the Muppets into an enduring international brand, contributed beloved puppet characters to Sesame Street, and made movies that applied his vivid imagination to stories for the big screen. This exhibition explores Henson’s unique contributions to the moving image, and how he and a talented team of designers, performers, and writers created an unparalleled body of work that continues to delight and inspire people of all ages.
MCHC is proud to call Jim Henson a Marylander, and we are proud to help bring Jim Henson home to Maryland.
Tickets go on sale April 24 for members and May 15 for non-members here.
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