The common Czech-Slovak nomination “Puppetry in Slovakia and the Czech Republic” was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 11th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on 1st December 2016.
Puppet theatre is an integral part of theatre tradition in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It is among the important and still living and developing elements of the intangible cultural heritage of both nations. This cultural phenomenon was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Slovakia in 2013, and one year later also on the List of the Intangible Elements of Traditional Folk Culture of the Czech Republic.
