New York City, NY (August 21, 2025) – The Jim Henson Company is celebrating 70 years with a unique first-time-ever opportunity for fans to visit the exclusive Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in New York City for two days only on October 9th and 10th. A limited number of tickets will be available for tours of this iconic destination where characters from the Company’s legendary productions have been created. Tickets will include a meet and greet with producer/director/puppeteer Brian Henson (Labyrinth, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island) as well as a look at the Company’s archives, a puppetry demonstration, photo ops, and more. The 2 ½-hour tour experience will also include a special presentation with Barbara Miller, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the nearby Museum of the Moving Image, home to The Jim Henson Exhibition. And finally, attendees will also enjoy seeing unique puppets and props from The Jim Henson Company’s 70-year history and be able to take home commemorative collectibles to remember this exclusive once-in-a-lifetime visit. Tickets are $300 (plus tax and fees) and are on sale now. Visit https://app.gopassage.com/events/Henson-Creature-Shop-Tour for tickets and additional information.
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop is the celebrated creative hub and workshop where award-winning artists and makers have created hundreds of the world’s most famous puppet characters including stars from Fraggle Rock, The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, Pajanimals and many more.
About Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™ provides animatronic creatures, digital puppetry, and soft puppets to the international film, television, theater, live event and advertising industries. Recent credits include Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock (Apple TV+), for which it won an Emmy, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix), and the Blumhouse horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s. The Shop is renowned for designing and building some of the world’s best-known characters including the Sesame Street puppets, the classic Muppets, and characters from Dinosaurs, Farscape, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and more. Additional credits in film and television include The Naked Gun (2025), Nine Perfect Strangers Season 2 (2025), Lost Ollie (2022), Come Play (2020), and Where the Wild Things Are (2009). The shop is also known for its live performance work for productions including My Neighbour Totoro, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, as well as for its partnerships with commercial clients like Snuggle, Topgolf, and General Mills, and with artists like Coldplay, The Avett Brothers, Cee Lo Green, Ben Rector, Lady Gaga and Deadmau5.
A recipient of multiple Emmy Awards for its outstanding work building puppets for Sesame Street, the Shop also received an Academy Award for its visual effects work on the film Babe. Other awards include a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for the Henson Performance Control System, a powerful custom-based interface for puppeteers, and an Emmy Award for its work in developing the Henson Digital Puppetry Studio, a patented control system technology that enables puppeteers to perform a computer generated (CG) character in real time.
About The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family entertainment for 70 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation. The Company’s most recent credits include Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip, starring Eva Longoria and Cheech Marin for Disney+, the Oscar®-winning Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio for Netflix, and the Emmy®-winning Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock for Apple TV+. Other television credits include Slumberkins and Harriet the Spy for Apple TV+; Dinosaur Train, Splash and Bubbles, and Sid the Science Kid all for PBS; Earth to Ned for Disney+; and Word Party and the Emmy-winning series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, both for Netflix. Iconic catalogue titles include Fraggle Rock, The Storyteller, the sci-fi series Farscape, and the ground-breaking fantasy classics The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Headquartered in Los Angeles with additional locations in New York and London, the Company is also home to Jim Henson’s Creature Shop™, a pre-eminent puppet and creature-building group and industry leader in puppeteered digital animation, with international film, television, theme park, and advertising clients.
CONTACT
Damon Lord
The Jim Henson Company
dlord@henson.com
