The Bread and Puppet Museum, Glover, Vermont

Molly and I, on a recent trip, wound up visiting the Bread and Puppet Museum. 

The Museum is an overwhelming and inspiring site.

The Museum is crammed with decades of puppets from countless performances of social and political commentary.

For a sense of scale, take a look at this shot Molly took of me walking among some the puppets.

Artist Peter Schumann founded the Bread and Puppet Theater in 1963 in the Lower East Side in New York City. 

 

Schumann’s creative style has been described as “a mix of Romanesque, German Expressionism, Cycladic Minimalism and Potato-Nose Naturalism”.

The Museum was established in Glover, Vermont (about 20 miles south of the Canadian border) in 1975 in a former dairy barn built in 1863.

Peter’s wife, Elka Schumann kept the books and managed the finances and was considered the “glue” that held the troupe and museum together. She died in 2021.

Peter Schumann, 89, remains active.

Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest, nonprofit, political theatre companies in the country.

Our friend Sheri.

You can also purchase prints, art, posters, chapbooks and booklets at the museum.

More info at:  Bread and Puppet