

Bobbi & Rosita
Thanks to Bobbi Rubin for adopting the beautiful Rosita at the 2017 Vent Haven convention. This great dummy was made, used, and donated by Bill Hume. She joined the Vent Haven collection in 1992. Bill made Rosita out of balsa wood in a short three weeks in 1943. He was in the Navy stationed at Coco Solo Naval Base and wanted to participate in the USO military talent tryouts. He didn't have time to send for his one of his dummies back home, so he made Rosita there. Of her


Museum Announcement!
The Vent Haven Museum Board of Directors is so very honored to appoint Mr. Jimmy Nelson, the Dean of American Ventriloquists, to be Director Emeritus of Vent Haven Museum, Inc. This appointment by the Directors is in recognition of Mr. Nelson's decades long relationship with and support of Vent Haven Museum. Jimmy's relationship with Vent Haven began in 1944 with a letter from our founder, W.S. Berger, who asked Jimmy for a photo for the museum collection. Their relationshi