COLLECTIONS-more than 500 puppets

• American Museum of Natural History – NY, NY
• Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry University of Connecticut – Storrs, CT
• Bread & Puppet Theatre Museum – Glover, VT
• Gary Busk Collection-Carrollton, TX
• Center for Puppetry Arts – Atlanta, GA
• International Puppetry Museum – Pasadena, CA
• Detroit Children’s Museum – Detroit, MI
• Detroit Institute of Arts – Detroit, MI
• Harvard Theatre Collection – Cambridge, MA
• Museum of International Folk Art – Santa Fe, NM
• Pittsburgh Children’s Museum – Pittsburgh, PA
• Puppet Guild of St Louis – St Louis, MO
• UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History – Los Angeles, CA

COLLECTIONS-Natural History, Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnography, Folk Arts

• Bishop Museum – Honolulu, HI
• British Columbia Provincial Museum – Victoria, Canada
• Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture – Seattle, WA
• Chinese Temple – Oroville, CA
• The Field Museum – Chicago, IL
• Mingei International Museum – San Diego, CA
• Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada
• National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center-Smithsonian – NY, NY
• National Museum of African Art-Smithsonian – Washington, DC
• National Museum of Natural History-Smithsonian – Washington, DC
• Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology – Berkeley, CA
• Royal Ontario Museum – Toronto, Canada
• Spooner Museum of Anthropology (or KUMA) – Lawrence, KS
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology – Philadelphia, PA

COLLECTIONS-Art Museums with collections from traditional cultures

• Asian Art Museum – San Francisco, CA
• Cleveland Museum of Art – Cleveland, OH
• Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco-M H De Young Memorial Art Museum – San Francisco, CA
• Metropolitan Museum of Art – NY, NY
• Peabody Essex Museum – Salem, MA
• Seattle Asian Art Museum/ Seattle Art Museum – Seattle, WA

COLLECTIONS

• American Museum of the Moving Image – Queens, NY
• Boston Public Library-Dwiggins Collection – Boston, MA
• Brooklyn Historical Society – Brooklyn, NY
• Broward County Library-Bienes Center – Fort Lauderdale, FL
• Canadian Museum of Civilization – Hull Canada (Ottawa area)
• Charles H MacNider Art Museum – Bil Baird Collection-Mason City, IA
• Chicago Historical Society – Chicago, IL
• Chicago Institute of Art – Chicago, IL
• Children’s Museum of Utica – Utica, NY
• Circus World Museum – Baraboo, WI
• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum – Smithsonian Institution-NY, NY
• Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library-Brander Matthews – NY, NY
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science – Denver, CO
• Jim Henson Legacy – NY, NY
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden – Smithsonian-Washington, DC
• Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh, PA
• Holland Museum – Holland, MI
• McGill University Library- Rosalynde Stearn Collection – Montreal, Canada
• Mercer Museum-Bucks County Historical Society – Doylestown, PA
• Michigan State University Museum – East Lansing, MI
• Museum of the City of New York – NY, NY
• Museum of Jewish Heritage – NY, NY
• Museum of Modern Art – NY, NY
  
• Museum of Science and Industry – Chicago, IL
• Nantucket Historical Association – Nantucket, MA
• National Museum of American History – Smithsonian-Washington, DC
• Newark Museum – Newark, NJ
• Oakland Museum – Oakland, CA
• Principia College-School of Nations Museum – Elsah, IL
• Puppetry Arts Institute – Independence, MO
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art – Santa Barbara, CA
• Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts-Gustave Baumann Collection – Santa Fe, NM
• Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, IL
• University of California at Santa Cruz – Santa Cruz, CA
• University of Texas, Austin -Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center – Austin, TX
• Vent Haven Museum – Ft Mitchell, KY
• Whitman College – Walla Walla, WA
• Whitney Museum of American Art – NY, NY
• Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum-Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ

COLLECTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THEATRES

• Aurora Valentinetti Puppet Museum – Bremerton, WA
• Bob Baker Marionette Theater – Los Angeles, CA
• Meredith Bixby Marionette Exhibit – Saline, MI
• Chinese Theatre Works – Jackson Heights, NY
• Cleveland Playhouse – Cleveland, OH
• In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
• International Mask and Puppet Museum – Syracuse, NY
• Bob Kramer Marionette Theatre – St Louis, MO
  
• Magic and Movie Hall of Fame – Las Vegas, NV
• Northwest Puppet Center – Seattle, WA
• Puppet House Theater-(Sicilian) – Stony Creek, CT
• Puppet Showplace Theatre – Brookline, MA
• Puppet Works – Brooklyn, NY

UNCONFIRMED COLLECTIONS

• Alaska State Museum
• Arizona State University
• Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Kansas City Museum
• Lyman Allyn Museum Connecticut College
• Milwaukee Public Museum
• Ohio State University,
• St Louis Art Museum
• University of Alaska Fairbanks Museum
• University of New Mexico Albuquerque
• Vancouver Museum

COLLECTIONS OF PUPPET VIDEOTAPES

• Puppeteers of America Audiovisual Library – Carrollton, TX
• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts – NY, NY
• Museum of Television and Radio – NY, NY & Beverly Hills, CA
• Library of Congress – Washington, DC
  
• Museum of Broadcasting and Communications – Chicago, IL

OTHER COLLECTIONS

• George Mason University (some WPA material) – Fairfax, VA
• C.V. Starr East Asian Library (Bunraku)-Columbia University – NY, NY
• East Asian Library (Chinese)-Princeton University – Princeton, NJ