Editing The Little Prince (section)

=== Museums and exhibits ===
==== Morgan exhibitions ====
New York City's [[Morgan Library & Museum]] mounted three showings of the original manuscript, with its first showing in 1994, on the occasion of the story's 50th anniversary of publication, followed by one celebrating the author's centennial of birth in 2000, with its last and largest exhibition in 2014 honouring the novella's 70th anniversary.

The 1994 exhibition displayed the original manuscript, translated by the museum's art historian Ruth Kraemer,<ref name="NYTimes-2005.10.16" /> as well as a number of the story's watercolours drawn from the Morgan's permanent collection. Also included with the exhibits was a 20-minute video it produced, ''My Grown-Up Friend, Saint-Exupéry'', narrated by actor [[Macaulay Culkin]],{{refn|

Although [[Macaulay Culkin]] had been earning approximately $8&nbsp;million per film project at that point, he provided his narration to the museum "for nothing, and we are grateful for his services", according to a Morgan representative.<ref name="Garden City Telegram-1994.09.29" />

|group="Note"}} along with photos of the author, correspondence to Consuelo, a signed first edition of ''The Little Prince'', and several international editions in other languages.<ref name="LA Times-1993.09.29" />

In January 2014, the museum mounted a third, significantly larger, exhibition centered on the novella's creative origins and its history. The major showing of ''The Little Prince: A New York Story'' celebrated the story's 70th anniversary.<ref name="NYTimes-2014.01.23.a" /> It examined both the novella's New York origins and Saint-Exupéry's creative processes, looking at his story and paintings as they evolved from conceptual germ form into progressively more refined versions and finally into the book's highly polished first edition. It was as if visitors were able to look over his shoulder as he worked, according to curator Christine Nelson. Funding for the 2014 exhibition was provided by several benefactors, including The Florence Gould Foundation, The Caroline Macomber Fund, [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]], [[Air France]] and the [[New York State Council on the Arts]].<ref name="Fine Books Magazine-2013.12.03" />

The new, more comprehensive exhibits included 35 [[watercolor painting]]s and 25 of the work's original 140 handwritten manuscript pages,<ref name="La Presse-2014.01.06" /> with his almost illegible handwriting penciled onto 'Fidelity' watermarked [[Onionskin|onion skin paper]]. The autograph manuscript pages included [[Strikethrough|struck-through]] content that was not published in the novella's first edition. As well, some 43 preparatory pencil drawings that evolved into the story's illustrations accompanied the manuscript, many of them dampened by moisture that rippled its onion skin media.<ref name="Metropolis Magazine-2014.01.29" /><ref name="Complex magazine-2014.01.21" /> One painting depicted the prince floating above Earth wearing a yellow scarf was wrinkled, having been crumpled up and thrown away before being retrieved for preservation.<ref name="Wall Street Journal-2014.01.23" /> Another drawing loaned from Silvia Hamilton's grandson depicted the diminutive prince observing a sunset on his home asteroid; two other versions of the same drawing were also displayed alongside it allowing visitors to observe the drawing's progressive refinement.<ref name="ThreeTomatoes" /> The initial working manuscript and sketches, displayed side by side with pages from the novella's first edition, allowed viewers to observe the evolution of Saint-Exupéry's work.

Shortly before departing the United States to rejoin his reconnaissance squadron in North Africa in its struggle against Nazi Germany, Saint-Exupéry appeared unexpectedly in military uniform at the door of his intimate friend, Silvia Hamilton. He presented his working manuscript and its preliminary drawings in a "rumpled paper bag", placed onto her home's entryway table, offering, "I'd like to give you something splendid, but this is all I have".<ref name="NYTimes-2014.01.23.a" /><ref name="Telegraph-2014.01.24" /><ref name="NYTimes-2014.01.23.b" /><ref name="Complex magazine-2014.01.21" /><ref name="Morgan Museum-2014.01.main" /> Several of the manuscript pages bore accidental coffee stains and cigarette scorch marks.<ref name="Wall Street Journal-2014.01.23" /> The Morgan later acquired the 30,000-word manuscript from Hamilton in 1968, with its pages becoming the centrepieces of its exhibitions on Saint-Exupéry's work. The 2014 exhibition also borrowed artifacts and the author's personal letters from the Saint-Exupéry-d'Gay Estate,{{refn|The ''d'Gay'' portion of the estate refers to Saint-Exupéry's married sister.|group="Note"}} as well as materials from other private collections, libraries and museums in the United States and France.<ref name="Morgan Library & Museum" /> Running concurrent with its 2014 exhibition, the Morgan held a series of lectures, concerts and film showings, including talks by Saint-Exupéry biographer [[Stacy Schiff]], writer [[Adam Gopnik]], and author [[Peter Sís]] on his new work ''The Pilot and The Little Prince: The Life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry'',<ref name="Morgan Museum-2014.01.main" /><ref name="A.F.P.-2014.01.15" />

Additional exhibits included photos of Saint-Exupéry by ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' photojournalist [[John Phillips (photographer)|John Phillips]], other photos of the author's New York area homes,<ref name="Fine Books Magazine-2013.12.03" /> an [[Orson Welles]] screenplay of the novella the filmmaker attempted to produce as a movie in collaboration with [[Walt Disney]],<ref name="BrainPickings" /><ref name="NYTimes-2014.01.23.a" />{{refn|

[[Orson Welles]] purchased the movie rights to the story the day after reading the novella in a single sitting.<ref name="Fine Books Magazine-2013.12.03" /> Welles was unable to persuade [[Walt Disney]] to assist him in turning his screenplay of the story into a film, with Disney fearing such a screen release would upstage his own screen adaptations of other stories.

|group="Note"}} as well as one of the few signed copies extant of ''The Little Prince'', gifted to Hamilton's 12-year-old son.{{refn|

The signed copy is inscribed "For Stephen, to whom I have already spoken about ''The Little Prince'', and who perhaps will be his friend".<ref name="Fast Company" />

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==== Permanent exhibits ====
* In [[Le Bourget]], Paris, France, the [[French Air and Space Museum|Air and Space Museum of France]] established a special exhibit honoring Saint-Exupéry, and which displays many of his literary creations. Among them are various early editions of ''The Little Prince''. Remnants of the [[Free French Air Force]] [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning#Antoine de Saint-Exupéry|P-38 Lightning]] in which he disappeared, and which were recovered from the [[Mediterranean]] in 2004, are also on view.
* In [[Hakone]], Japan there was the Museum of The Little Prince featuring outdoor squares and sculptures such as the B-612 Asteroid, the Lamplighter Square, and a sculpture of the Little Prince. The museum grounds additionally featured a ''Little Prince Park'' along with the ''Consuelo Rose Garden''. The museum permanently closed in March 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/news/the-little-prince-museum-in-hakone-is-closing-at-the-end-of-march-011323 | title=The Little Prince Museum in Hakone is closing at the end of March | date=13 January 2023 }}</ref>
* In [[Gyeonggi-do]], South Korea, there is an imitation French village, Petite France, which has adapted the story elements of ''The Little Prince'' into its architecture and monuments. There are several sculptures of the story's characters, and the village also offers overnight housing in some of the French-style homes. Featured are the history of ''The Little Prince'', an art gallery, and a small [[wikt:amphitheatre|amphitheatre]] situated in the middle of the village for musicians and other performances. The enterprise's director stated that in 2009 the village received a half million visitors.<ref name="SaintExupéry.com-a" /><ref name=VisitKorea-2 /><ref name="VisitKorea" />

==== Special exhibitions ====
* [[File:Madeira-Street art-Portrait-Kleiner Prinz.jpg|thumb|The Little Prince as part of a street art project in [[Funchal]] ([[Madeira]])]]In 1996 the Danish sculptor [[Jens Galschiøt]] unveiled an artistic arrangement consisting of seven blocks of granite asteroids 'floating' in a circle around a 2-metre tall planet Earth. The artistic universe was populated by bronze sculpture figures that the little prince met on his journeys. As in the book, the prince discovers that "the essential is invisible to the eye, and only by the heart can you really see". The work was completed at the start of 1996 and placed in the central square of [[Fuglebjerg]], [[Denmark]],<ref name="GalschiøtGallery" /> but was later stolen from an exhibition in [[Billund, Denmark|Billund]] in 2011.<ref name="Berlingske-2011.10.17" />
* During 2009 in [[São Paulo]], Brazil, the giant Oca Art Exhibition Centre presented The Little Prince as part of The Year of France and ''The Little Prince''. The displays covered over 10,000 square metres on four floors, examining Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince and their philosophies, as visitors passed through theme areas of the desert, different worlds, stars and the cosmos. The ground floor of the exhibit area was laid out as a huge map of the routes flown by the author and [[Aéropostale (aviation)|Aeropostale]] in South America and around the world. Also included was a full-scale replica of his [[Caudron Simoun]], crashed in a simulated Sahara Desert.<ref name="TheLittlePrince.com-2011.03.14" /><ref name="JovemMuseologia" /><ref name="Carvalho" />
* In 2012 the [[Catalonia|Catalan]] architect Jan Baca unveiled a sculpture in [[Terrassa]], Catalonia showing the Little Prince along with the sentence, "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye".<ref name="llibrevell" />
* In February 2022, nearly eight decades after it was written, "The Little Prince" arrived in Paris. The exhibit began on February 17 and ended on June 26. It contained 600 items, including photographs, poems, and newspaper clippings relating to "The Little Prince."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Xu|first=Xiaofei|date=February 18, 2022|title=Paris exhibit brings 'The Little Prince' home|pages=1|work=CNN|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/17/europe/little-prince-manuscript-france-exhibition-intl/index.html|access-date=February 18, 2022}}</ref>