From Crater Crescent to Canberra: Mr Squiggle gets a new home at the National Museum of Australia

Norman Hetherington with Mr Squiggle and other puppets. Mr Squiggle and Rocket will be on show at the National Museum from 29 April to 16 May 2024. Photograph: National Museum of Australia

Generations of Australians have known Mr Squiggle, a puppet with a pencil for a nose, lived at 93 Crater Crescent on the moon.

But as of Monday, Squiggle – who landed on the set of his children’s television show aired by the ABC from 1959 to 1999 in a rocket at the start of each episode – will have a new home at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.