Documentation center

The documentation center has an online catalogue listing most of its resources. It comprises :

• Books: around 12,000 books on puppetry and the performing arts.
• Grey literature: some 100 conference proceedings, master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.
• Manuscripts/scripts: around 300 autograph or typescript manuscripts from the 19th and 20th centuries, plus the typescripts of Edward Gordon Craig, acquired by the Institute in 2001.
• Periodicals: around 300 periodical titles on puppetry and the performing arts (representing some 8,000 issues).
• Audiovisual documents: around 3,000 documents (recordings of shows, end-of-course presentations, work by École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM) students, animated films, interviews and documentaries).
• Iconographic documents: around 56,000 items, in various physical formats (paper prints, slides, negatives, postcards and posters) and digital formats.
• Documentary files: some 7,000 files on companies, festivals, permanent theaters, schools and museums in France and around the world, as well as thematic files.
• Puppet collections: 1,500 objects