Sesame Park characters on display at the "Growing Up with CBC" exhibit
Dodi and her plane
The CBC Museum, in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre at 250 Front West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's museum, dedicating to its archival television and radio materials and heritage. It was founded in 1994. The museum's "Growing Up with CBC" exhibit featured the Sesame Park puppets on display, including Basil, Louis, Chaos and Katie. The puppets' costumes were from the Season 5 episode "Dare to Share". Additionally, Dodi was displayed in her plane hung above the exhibit.
The exhibit also featured various props, photos and video clips from Sesame Park alongside artifacts from other famous Canadian children's television shows.
In 2007, the Basil puppet, as well as several other puppets on loan from the museum, appeared in the "Forgotten Lives Of Puppets" skit shown during the Gemini Awards. This ended up in the Friendly Giant props and puppets being removed from display since they were used in the sketch without the permission of Bob Homme's family.
The CBC Museum closed on December 22, 2017, due to high maintenance costs and generally failing to advertise itself around Toronto. Basil, Louis, and Katie would later be featured on display at the Canadian Museum of History.
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