Argentine Puppet Museum, Puppet museum in San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

The Argentine Puppet Museum occupies the birthplace of Mane Bernardo at Piedras 902 in San Telmo. Its rooms hold more than 600 puppets from Argentina and abroad, shown by technique: rod, glove, thimble, shadow and marote figures. The Serguei Obraztsov room displays Italian puppi from La Boca's Teatro Venecia, while the Carlos Moneo Sanz room keeps a puppet used by Federico García Lorca at the Teatro Avenida in 1934.

The museum was founded on 5 November 1983 by puppeteers Mane Bernardo and Sarah Bianchi. It began as a travelling collection, with more than fifty exhibitions held across Argentina. In 1996 it moved into Bernardo's birthplace at Piedras 902, its first permanent home.

The auditorium is named after Federico García Lorca, who staged a puppet performance at the Teatro Avenida in 1934; the Carlos Moneo Sanz room keeps the puppet he used. The museum also runs a library of over a thousand titles on puppetry history and techniques and an archive of puppets.

The museum occupies the house where Mane Bernardo was born, at Piedras 902 in San Telmo, and is run through financial self-management. It is reached on foot from the surrounding San Telmo streets; the sources give no opening days or hours, so confirm them before setting out.

The museum operates independently without external funding, managed by its founders to maintain artistic control. This self-managed approach allows it to maintain a specialized research library for scholars studying puppet arts.