Mousegetar: Museum Object and Cultural History
Mousegetar: Date made: 1958. associated date: 1958. associated institution: Mickey Mouse Club.
The object in the museum catalogue
This plastic toy guitar was a part of the Mickey Mouse Club. This was a popular television variety show for children that featured a cast of young teens. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other Disney characters were incorporated alongside live-action skits, musical numbers, and serial stories. Walt Disney used the show to help finance and promote his new Disneyland Park, which opened in 1955. The original show remained in syndication into the 1970s and was later revised as the New Mickey Mouse Club.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1958
- associated date: 1958
- associated institution: Mickey Mouse Club
- maker: Mattel, Inc.
- Object Name: Guitar
- Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 23 in x 8 in x 2 in; 58.42 cm x 20.32 cm x 5.08 cm
- general subject association: Television
- general subject association: Mickey Mouse
- ID Number: 1984.0031.01
- accession number: 1984.0031
- catalog number: 1984.0031.01
- Credit Line: Gift of Brian M. Bailey
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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