Images Courtesy of the MacNider Museum.
Images Courtesy of the MacNider Museum. childrens music box
MASON CITY, Iowa – The puppets from “The Sound of Music” have a new lease on life.
The Charles H. MacNider Museum says it has received two more grant awards from the Chautauqua Circuit #889 Questers chapter of the Iowa Questers. The museum says it received $10,420 to send four “Sound of Music” puppets to the Midwest Art Conservation Center where they were cleaned, stabilized, and small repairs were made. The puppets that were conserved are: Female Goat, Goat Herder, Prince, and the Male Goat.
The puppets were created by Mason City native Bil Baird. His family donated them to the MacNider Museum in the 1980s.
“The Sound of Music puppets are perhaps some of the most famous puppets in the world,” says Museum Director Edith Blanchard. “This will preserve these famous cultural icons not only for our community but for the thousands of visitors that flock to the Museum yearly to see the famous puppets.”
There have been efforts to document and create custom storage boxes for the puppets through various grants but this grant is the first one to do specific conservation work on the puppets.
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