The original Muppets have returned home to Washington. The Henson family has donated the original Kermit the Frog puppet – famously made by Jim Henson from his mother’s coat and ping pong balls – to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Along with Kermit, nine other puppets from Jim Henson’s first television series Sam and Friends were also donated to the museum. The Hensons are planning to give the Smithsonian a dozen more puppets from the family’s personal collection in the years to come, although that’s at least partially contingent on the approval of Disney, which of course now owns the rights to most of the classic Muppets.