Cartoon Art Museum

The Cartoon Art Museum had been established back in 1984 by some cartoon art enthusiasts who wanted to organize exhibitions with the art work that they have collected. For many years, this museum had been around without an actual location for their exhibitions.

Instead, they set up their shows on various local museums and spaces. Not until in 1987 through the help of Peanuts' creator, Mr. Charles Schulz, The art museum for cartoons had its home in San Francisco.

The Cartoon Art Museum had its first home on the 2nd floor of the San Francisco Call Bulletin Bldg and it resided there for 14 years. In 2001, the Art Museum had transferred to a better location. Now it is at the ground floor that was then the venue of Friends of Photography in 655 Mission St.

Over the span of 22 years, the Cartoon Art Museum had produced hundreds of exhibitions and up to 20 publications and it is continually increasing. The museum focuses on the cartoon art, of course, but its key function really is to preserve, exhibit and document these art forms.

It is, in fact, the only museum in Western USA that is dedicated to preserving all cartoon arts. As of the moment, they house over 6,000 pieces and this includes cartoon arts that are animation cells, some early newspaper strips that dates back to over a hundred years, and some comic book pages.

The Cartoon Art Museum is not just any exhibition gallery. In fact, it is also a bookstore, a museum, a library, a child's fantasy world, a historic museum and so much more. It has major yearly exhibitions and it also hold some classes for San Francisco CA travel tourists.

There are lectures too from renowned cartoon artists. Cartoons are definitely not outdated, it just gets reinvented and you'll see the path it took from its infant days to the realistic animation we have now.