{"id":98094,"date":"2017-04-12T03:14:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98094"},"modified":"2017-04-12T03:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T07:14:14","slug":"museum-asks-fans-of-kermit-elmo-to-help-pay-for-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/12\/museum-asks-fans-of-kermit-elmo-to-help-pay-for-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum asks fans of Kermit, Elmo to help pay for exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98095\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98095\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Elmo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98095\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Elmo.png\" alt=\"A museum is asking fans of Jim Henson's Muppets to help pay for an exhibition featuring original puppets of beloved characters like Elmo, Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog. (Photo: Mike Mozart\/Flickr)\" width=\"321\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Elmo.png 321w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Elmo-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A museum is asking fans of Jim Henson&#8217;s Muppets to help pay for an exhibition featuring original puppets of beloved characters like Elmo, Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeepersmedia\/12704315275\/in\/photolist-kmCWjx-g6FuLJ-kmCW54-2SANA-bJ5pan-8bajSe-kmCVTn-kmDLzt-7jDoHW-4WySEK-7yTgcQ-a5te8d-48SVSC-bVrHh3-AKbGY-dafS3L-9tAaZj-b3eym-8J7DUt-53ePrt-NTXXy-nvFh3U-98hnon-j9B8Rn-6A26Yj-6ePNHc-6ePNiv-aDpo9-oogeX-8tvwKC-bSCkHP-63AQEv-48NV7v-daL5Qj-6BHyvf-2gErEG-us4q7-5MbSc9-kwvuoM-vfarg-5PKAQN-CvBFj-4xz9Wt-nxZo8-5hQhLb-62yHam-vnec8-2JZbjj-q5Wn8T-aDppc\">Mike Mozart\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">NEW YORK \u2014 A museum is asking fans of Jim Henson&#8217;s Muppets to help pay for an exhibition featuring original puppets of beloved characters like Elmo, Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum of the Moving Image launched a Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday seeking $40,000 to help preserve the puppets for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJim Henson&#8217;s work has meant so much to so many people, myself included,\u201d actor Neil Patrick Harris says in a video on the Kickstarter page. \u201cHis humour and inventiveness have inspired people to find their own creative voices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Queens museum owns hundreds of Henson puppets and other objects including costumes and props, all donated by Henson&#8217;s family in 2013. Henson died in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Museum staff members are working to conserve the items along with Jim Henson&#8217;s Creature Shop, which was founded by Henson in 1979 and carries on his work, and fine-arts conservators.<\/p>\n<p>Curator Barbara Miller said the museum has never turned to crowdfunding before but it made sense for the Muppet exhibit \u201cbecause the community of fans is so active.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one element of an effort to cross the finish line for fundraising,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Donors will get perks including T-shirts, artisanal chocolate and naming rights to a puppet pedestal.<\/p>\n<p>Museum officials are hoping to open the exhibit this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the puppets, the exhibit will feature rarely seen video footage and photographs going back to Henson&#8217;s early work in television in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>A travelling exhibition using objects from the collection will open May 20 at Seattle&#8217;s Museum of Pop Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A museum is asking fans of Jim Henson&#8217;s Muppets to help pay for an exhibition featuring original &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[17866],"class_list":["post-98094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-jim-hensons-muppets","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}