National Museum of Australia acquires collection of Mr Squiggle creator, Norman Hetherington

The National Museum of Australia has acquired the puppets, scripts, graphics and squiggles from the iconic television show, Mr Squiggle.He was the beloved man from the moon with a pencil for a nose who graced Australian television screens for more than 40 years.

Often, the drawings would end up the wrong way up, leading Mr Squiggle to say "everything's upside down these days" before asking the presenter to turn the picture around.On air until 1999, Mr Squiggle survived changing formats, the introduction of colour television and several presenters, including none other than Norman Hetherington's daughter Rebecca Hetherington.

Ms Hetherington's father was a talented cartoonist who was drawn to puppets because he saw them as "three-dimensional cartoons". She said her father, who died in 2010, would be "humbled" and "really excited" by the fact his life's work had been picked up by the National Museum of Australia. It includes not only the puppets from the show but original scripts, artworks, props, sets, production notes and merchandise.

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