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The Jim Henson statue at the University of Maryland, College Park.
The University of Maryland, College Park, is Jim Henson's alma mater. He started his TV career while he was a student there. It is also where he met his future wife, Jane Nebel.
A statue of Jim and Kermit is on the College Park campus, outside the Adele H. Stamp Student Union. The statue was dedicated on September 24, 2003, in a ceremony that included Jane Henson and Willard Scott as speakers.
In 2006, the Student Union introduced 50 statues of their school mascot, Testudo the Terrapin, with varying designs (chosen by different sponsoring groups). Among them was Kertle, a statue designed to look like Kermit the Frog.
The University of Maryland Libraries has an extensive collection of Jim Henson videos, "The Jim Henson Works", that can be viewed from computers in the UM libraries.
CTW Archives
The University of Maryland Libraries also holds the archives of the Children's Television Workshop in the National Public Broadcasting Archives (part of the Broadcasting Archives along with the Library of American Broadcasting). These archives are accessible to the general public, and have been used as source materials for some of the articles on this wiki.
An index of the CTW archives files is posted here, on the National Public Broadcasting Archives website. More detailed contents are listed in .pdf files, accessible on the site by clicking on the "Box inventory" links.
The files themselves are not available on the internet. To view the files, researchers can visit the Hornbake Library in College Park, Maryland. The National Public Broadcasting Archives is open on weekdays from 10am to 5pm.