Muzeum loutek - Museum of puppets
Wooden theatre stage from eighteen fifteen with over two hundred marionettes acting out folk legends and morality tales.
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This guide to the Museum of Puppets in Český Krumlov starts at a wardrobe-sized theatre stage built in 1815, and the nightly trial it staged for Doctor Faustus, the scholar who traded his soul for knowledge. It follows the traveling families who carried Faustus from market square to inn yard, and Kašpárek, the sharp-tongued puppet clown who could mock a king or a priest without facing the consequences a real man would. Look for the puppeteer's recreated attic home, where a whole touring repertoire once lived in a handful of trunks.
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