Thanks to a donation from the Henson Foundation , on Tuesday , Miss Piggy , Kermit the Frog , and 19 other Muppets and well - bed characters gained their lawful place in history , enroll into the ingathering of theSmithsonian Museum . As Kermit would say — hi - ho !
There was a special observance to brand the Muppet ’s induction yesterday , which would have been Godhead Jim Henson ’s 77th birthday . Many of graphic symbol that will be for good enshrined in the Washington , D.C. museum are the earliest of Henson ’s puppet , so they expect a little dissimilar from the ones you know and have it away today . Kermit was n’t a Gaul yet , for example . And the early version of the Cookie Monster was chowing down on IBM computers — he had n’t graduate to cookies yet . The former loop of Grover is green . His juicy coat come by and by .
The Muppets and friends will be on display commence in February 2014 as a part of the American Stories exhibit . This is the ( almost ) full list of what the museum stimulate :
Muppets :
Miss Piggy
Kermit the anuran
Fozzie Bear
Rowlf
Swedish Chef
J.P. Grosse
Scooter
Prairie Dawn
The Wilkins Coffee Muppet
Sesame Street
Elmo
Grover
Count Von Count
Oscar the Grouch
Cookie Monster
Bert
Ernie
Fraggles
Boober Fraggle
Traveling Matt
One of the beautiful thing about this donation is it builds on the Smithsonian ’s existing collection of Muppets . The museum already own puppets from Sam and Friends , a show Henson created before the Muppets . And many of these freshly - acquire characters had been hive away away in corner for twelvemonth and years . So it ’s good and right that they now live on in a museum , where they ’ll get the attention they merit . [ Reuters , Smithsonian Mag ]
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