The Virtual museum offers us the possibility of an unique journey through times in the fabulous heritage world of puppets and puppetry of more than 60 years of Tandarica Animation Theater`s history.
The museum is named after Dorina Tănăsescu in order to pay tribute to one of the most prolific puppeteers recognized as one of the greatest creators of this theatrical genre. She founded Tandarica Theater and other animation and puppet theaters around the world.
Born to be a teacher, Dorina Tănăsescu had a major contribution in setting up the animation section at the Faculty of Drama, "I.L. Caragiale" National University of Theater and Cinema, Bucharest. As a teacher she had developed an innovating teaching technique regarding the relationship between actor and the puppetry. Her technique is based on personal inventions in terms of puppet construction.
Dorina Tănăsescu Museum consists of two parts, the itinerant museum with the puppets and puppetry preserved in time and the virtual museum you can see here, consisting of photographs of the items in the itinerant museum. The aim of this museum is to keep alive the history of the animation theatre, not to let the essence of this art or the great theater creators, directors, scenographer or animation artists be forgotten.
