In the garden just outside the front door, there’s a Snoopy labyrinth. The museum also stages classes for kids - fundamentals of art, basics of animation, the science of “Peanuts,” making movies with Lego pieces, you name it. During my visit in May, one area was filled with “The Language of Lines: How Cartoonists Communicate,” featuring original works from Garry (“Doonesbury”) Trudeau, Walt (“Pogo”) Kelly, Bill (“Calvin and Hobbes”) Watterson, Mort (“Beetle Bailey”) Walker and Berkeley (“Bloom County”) Breathed (who will appear at the museum Oct. Many exhibitions also look more broadly at cartoons in American culture or American culture in cartoons. The artist’s studio, desk and bookshelves are preserved in a room, and a place of honor is reserved for a wrapped-up Snoopy doghouse - a gift to Schulz from his longtime friend Christo. One wall of the 27,000-square-foot museum is covered with ceramic tiles bearing 3,588 comic strips, which together make a black-and-white mural. Price: Adult admission is $8 children ages 4 to 17, $5.Ĭurrent exhibitions cover “Peanuts” and politics, baseball as allegory and the whole Lucy-Schroeder-Beethoven love triangle. Summer hours ( Memorial Day to Labor Day): Museum also open on Tuesdays, with same hours as the rest of the week. 2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, Calif.(707) 579-4452 Fall, winter and spring hours: 11 a.m.
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