The Children’s and Puppet Theatres Department was established in 2008 on the basis of materials from the Children’s Theatres State Museum. The collection includes more than 40 thousand items. There are collections of materials related to the Central Children’s Theatre, E. Demmeni State Puppet Theatre, Bryantsev Young Spectator Theater, Yefimovs (the founders of professional puppet and shadow theatre), Lyubov Shaporina-Yakovleva (the founder of the first puppet theatre in Soviet Russia), Natalya Satz (the founder of children’s music theatre), actors Marta Tsyfrinovich, Igor Kovalenko, Marianna Makarova, Valentina Sperantova, and many others. The theatrical puppets collection is the most significant one. In particular, there are represented the oldest preserved Russian puppet theatres: the Efimovs’ Puppet Theatre and Puppet Theatre under the direction of E. Demmeni. The museum’s holding also includes costumes, props, numismatic objects, and everyday items. The documentary collection keeps work IDs, letters, invitations, diaries, manuscripts, minutes, and other documents related to theatres, festivals, and theatre figures. There are collections related to Yuzef Gimmelfarb, Mikhail Kholodov, Ivan Voronov, Vladimir Talalay, Konstantin Shakh-Azizov, Galina Stepanova, Klavdia Koreneva. The museum possesses playbills and programs of Soviet (since the 1930s), Russian, and foreign theatres, festivals, photos since the 1920s, books, booklets, periodicals. The collection of decorative materials presents sketches of puppets, costumes, scenery, and portraits. There are personal collections of the Yefimovs, Yelizaveta Yakunina, Ivan Fedotov, Ivan Gumenyuk. The museum also possesses scale models.