Australia

National Gallery of Australia - The Gallery has a significant collection of costumes from the Diaghilev's Ballet Russes (1909-1929).

National Library of Australia, Pictorial and Photographic Collections - A range of materials relating to the performing arts in Australia.

Performing Arts Museum - Victorian Arts Center, Melbourne.  There are over 200,000 items in the collection, including costumes and costume designs, set models, props and puppets.
Queensland Performing Arts Trust - Performing Arts Complex 

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Germany

Film Museum Berlin - Deutsche Kinemathek - The script collection contains approximately 20,000 screenplays, dialogue lists, outlines and treatments.

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Great Britain

The Bill Douglas Center for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture - The Center contains both a public museum and an academic research center.

Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - It's a kind of exhibition or museum, a collection of contemporary automata.

Center for Performance Research - University of Aberystwyth. Extensive book and video collections.

John Rylands Library - University of Manchester. The Library houses the papers of several playwrights, theatrical directors and designers, impresarios and critics.

Renishaw Stables Museum and Art Gallery - The corpus of this exhibition is from private collections.

Templeman Library Theatre Collections - The collection consists of manuscripts, playbills, theatre music and memorabilia of various origins, mostly belonging to actors.

Theatre Museum - London. Britain's National Museum of the Performing Arts.

University of Bristol Theatre Collection - Archives

Voltaire Foundation - University of Oxford. Promotes studies and researches on Voltaire’s works. 

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Italy

Biblioteca e Raccolta Teatrale del Burcardo - Rome. The theatre library owns about 45000 volumes, from XVIth century editions to contemporary publications; 400 periodicals.

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Japan

Kushigata Shuzen Museum of Art (Kabuki Ukiyoe Woodblock Print) - Kushigata-cho's Shunsen Art Museum, opened in January 1991, is presenting a collection of the works and documents of Shunsen Natori.

Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum - Waseda University, Tokyo. The principal permanent exhibits are related to the Japanese stage arts. 

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Netherlands

Theatre Institute Nederland - The museum collection, encompass 20,000 posters, 150,000 photo's and slides, thousands of programs, prints, design sketches, letters, costumes, stage models, props, puppets, masks, paintings, backdrops and miscellaneous object.

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Sweden

August Strindberg - Strindbergsmuseet - Strindberg’s library consists of some 3,000 works and are today the core of the Strindberg Museum.

Drottningholms Teatermuseum - Stockholm. With its app. 70,000 volumes is one of the largest specialist libraries in Europe.

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United States

The Ballet Russe Scenery Collection - The Butler Ballet in Indianapolis, IN, houses a very valuable collection of scenery and costumes.

The Billy Rose Theatre Collection - The Billy Rose Theatre Collection of The New York Public Library is one of the largest and most comprehensive archives devoted to the theatrical arts.

Circus and Allied Arts Collection at Milner Library, Illinois State University
This collection also includes related arts such as carnivals, carousels, conjuring, music halls, and vaudeville.

Empire State Theatre And Musical Instrument Museum  - The Empire State Theatre And Musical Instrument Museum is located in the Harriet May Mills Art & Home Center and belongs to a non-profit group.
Special Collections & Archives of George Mason University.

International Theatre Design Archive: Project 2000 - A venture of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology whose mission is to actively promote the advancement of knowledge and skills in all aspects of design and production in the performing arts.

Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute - (Ohio State University)
Photographic archive - about 500 items including photos, mainly views of theatres, song sheets, letters, books…

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) - A multi-disciplinary center for visual, performing and media arts.

Native American Women's Playwrights Archive - Miami University.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - The world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field.

The Northern Illinois University/ Lyric Opera of Chicago Historical Scenic Collection - Represents a comprehensive depository of primary scenic materials from the American Operatic theatre.

PALM San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum - PALM preserves and makes accessible materials about the performing arts, particularly on the San Francisco Bay Area's performing arts heritage.

Theater Arts Collection at the Ranson Center, University of Texas
Austin. The Center has substantial holdings of original costume and stage designs, an estimated 200,000 playbills, 80,000 pieces of sheet music, and 20,000 news clippings.

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