Behind the Seams: How QAGOMA Brought The Jim Henson Company's Real Sets to Brisbane

As 'Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company' opens at GOMA, curator Amanda Slack-Smith and Jim Henson Company CEO Lisa Henson reveal what it took to bring the real Fraggle Rock sets to Brisbane, and the three-chapter structure built to tell 70 years of puppetry history.

Phillipe Blake· Editor11 September 2026

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